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Dengue vaccine should be ready in five years:applause:
According minister, the product will be developed from a partnership between the Fiocruz and a British laboratory
Folha Online
Health Minister, Jos? S?crates, said during the launch of the "Rio Against Dengue summer 2009/2010" which provides that the country has an AIDS vaccine within five years.
In the event, held at Maracanazinho Temporao also said that the drug is being developed by Fiocruz (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation) in a partnership with the British firm GlaxoSmithKline.
"We estimate that in five years we will have a vaccine that can protect our population this disease. There are 60 million invested, half of the Ministry of Health, half of the pharmaceutical company. It is the first time a public laboratory and a multi-join to develop a technology to solve a problem of public health research, "said Tempor?o.
According to the minister, from 2008 to 2009 Brazil reduced by 46% the number of dengue cases. "We reduced well over 80% the number of deaths, and 64% the number of serious cases."
The governor of Rio, Sergio Cabral said that 3,000 firefighters will operate during the summer to combat the outbreak of the mosquito Aedes aegypti, which transmits dengue. According to the state government, the work of agents of control is already being done by 1,800 troops and other 1200 will strengthen the framework.
"We also have over 2,000 men who may act in an emergency," he said. Last year, 2,500 firefighters worked as agents in the fight against dengue.
A novelty this year is that the State intends to use the larvicide Diflubenzurom. According to experts, the product has a higher residual power, which acts against the mosquito larvae for longer.
According to the state government, the delivery of laboratory tests to detect the dengue virus will be faster. This year, representatives from the Lacenn (Central Laboratory PLR), responsible for serological analysis and the dengue virus isolation, succeeded in reducing from three days to 24 hours processing time of examinations.
Between January and September 2009 were received and processed 3303 samples for serology of dengue across the state of Rio
"We continue to fight the mosquito in an extremely effective, but mainly bringing culture to the people," said state Health Secretary Sergio Cortes.
He said next summer the Health Department will partner with the funk group Furac?o 2000, AfroReggae and team famous Planet Globe, and make presentations in communities
Dengue vaccine should be ready in five years:applause:
According minister, the product will be developed from a partnership between the Fiocruz and a British laboratory
Folha Online
Health Minister, Jos? S?crates, said during the launch of the "Rio Against Dengue summer 2009/2010" which provides that the country has an AIDS vaccine within five years.
In the event, held at Maracanazinho Temporao also said that the drug is being developed by Fiocruz (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation) in a partnership with the British firm GlaxoSmithKline.
"We estimate that in five years we will have a vaccine that can protect our population this disease. There are 60 million invested, half of the Ministry of Health, half of the pharmaceutical company. It is the first time a public laboratory and a multi-join to develop a technology to solve a problem of public health research, "said Tempor?o.
According to the minister, from 2008 to 2009 Brazil reduced by 46% the number of dengue cases. "We reduced well over 80% the number of deaths, and 64% the number of serious cases."
The governor of Rio, Sergio Cabral said that 3,000 firefighters will operate during the summer to combat the outbreak of the mosquito Aedes aegypti, which transmits dengue. According to the state government, the work of agents of control is already being done by 1,800 troops and other 1200 will strengthen the framework.
"We also have over 2,000 men who may act in an emergency," he said. Last year, 2,500 firefighters worked as agents in the fight against dengue.
A novelty this year is that the State intends to use the larvicide Diflubenzurom. According to experts, the product has a higher residual power, which acts against the mosquito larvae for longer.
According to the state government, the delivery of laboratory tests to detect the dengue virus will be faster. This year, representatives from the Lacenn (Central Laboratory PLR), responsible for serological analysis and the dengue virus isolation, succeeded in reducing from three days to 24 hours processing time of examinations.
Between January and September 2009 were received and processed 3303 samples for serology of dengue across the state of Rio
"We continue to fight the mosquito in an extremely effective, but mainly bringing culture to the people," said state Health Secretary Sergio Cortes.
He said next summer the Health Department will partner with the funk group Furac?o 2000, AfroReggae and team famous Planet Globe, and make presentations in communities