Claims is able to Generate Viet Nam Vaccine Anti Diarrhea
Ho Chi Minh, Jia Xiang – Viet Nam Health Department claiming his country became the fourth country in the world and the second in Southeast Asia that is capable of producing anti-diarrhea vaccine for children. The official news agency
Viet Nam News Agency in its report on Wednesday, citing a statement Le Thi Luan, Deputy Director of Department of Health Center for research and production of vaccines and Biologicals, that research done to make vaccine Rotavin-M1 has been successful.
Rotavin-M1 is produced from the blue monkey kidney cells (Macaca Mulatta) and to get a clean source of monkeys for research and production of vaccines, Viet Nam prepares Health facilities on the island of Reu, the northern province of Quang Ninh.
According to the Department of health, in a project that began in 1998, focusing on the creation of the Rota virus to develop vaccines and devised a process of production. The vaccine quality on par with the vaccine Rotarix, which Belgium has been used in Viet Nam.
vaccine doses in Each country will cost about 200,000 VND (9,5 u.s. dollars) or one-third of imported vaccines.
mentioned also that the vaccine was tested in 30 adults and 1,000 children aged 12 weeks to six years old. Test tried it for three years in Thailand's northern province of Binh and Phu Tho. The results show that the vaccine is safe for adults and children, health officials said, as quoted From on Wednesday (19/2/14.)
The vaccine has been evaluated by the Center for disease control and prevention and was approved for use by the National Institute for the control of vaccines and Biological Department of health grant
. product license for the vaccine that will be sold in the domestic market in may 2013. So far around 100,000 children in 60 areas nationwide have received the vaccine.
If used in a national vaccination program, Centre for research and production of vaccines and Biological can provide about 4.5 million doses per year. Vaccine should be administered orally, not injected. The first dose should be administered when the children are aged six to 10 months, and a booster dose was done two months after the first.
Diarrhea caused by the intestinal virus Rota is acute inflammation. Rumored in Viet Nam, more than 50 per cent of children aged under five years annually suffer from the disease and about 5,300-6,800 children died of the disease every year.[W1]