December 11, 2015 — Dailyrounds
Mexico unveils world’s first approved dengue vaccine!
Mexico unveiled the world’s first approved dengue vaccine. The approval followed two years of clinical trials worldwide on more than 40,000 patients !
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), “nearly 40 percent of the world’s population (3.9 billion people) is at risk of contracting dengue.”
Around 400 million people in more than 128 countries are infected with the mosquito-borne virus each year.
In Mexico, a total of 32,100 cases were registered last year, including 8,668 cases of severe dengue, which cost the country over 3.2 billion pesos ($187 million).
