{"id":70494,"date":"2016-02-11T22:46:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T03:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=70494"},"modified":"2016-02-11T22:46:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T03:46:07","slug":"dengue-vaccines-now-available-in-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/02\/11\/dengue-vaccines-now-available-in-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"Dengue vaccines now available in the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_68774\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68774\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Universal-Flu-Vaccine1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-68774\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68774\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Universal-Flu-Vaccine1.jpg\" alt=\"(Internet photo)\" width=\"460\" height=\"287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Universal-Flu-Vaccine1.jpg 460w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Universal-Flu-Vaccine1-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68774\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Internet photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">MANILA &#8211; Pharmaceutical firm Sanofi Pasteur confirmed that the world\u2019s first dengue vaccine is already available in the Philippines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Sanofi Pasteur Country Manager Ching Santos said during the official launch of the vaccine that Dengvaxia arrived in the country last week and the doses of dengue vaccine was available since Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Patients can now ask their doctors and asses whether they are vaccinated by dengvaxia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Food and Drug Administration granted the marketing approval last December, and it is the first dengue prevention vaccine licensed in Asia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Department of Health Secretary Janette Garin said the health agency will spend a total of P3.5 billion for dengue immunization for over 3,000 public schools with high incidence of dengue, and will implement the school-based immunization for Grade 4 students in the National Capital Region, Regions 3 and 4A from April to June.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8211; Pharmaceutical firm Sanofi Pasteur confirmed that the world\u2019s first dengue vaccine is already available in the Philippines. Sanofi &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":68774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-70494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-rewrite","mauthors-mavelle-p-durian","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}