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03/29/2012
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According to government, 300 volunteers participated in the test will last one year
For the medical director of Clinical Trials of the Butantan Institute, Alexander Precious, a dengue vaccine will be tested in humans starting in June in Sao Paulo. The Butantan Institute will use 300 volunteers, between 18 and 50 years old, who will be recruited from April to the tests.
According to the Ministry of Health, the test will evaluate the safety and whether the vaccine will immunize the virus. The expectation is that it protects against all four types of virus disease after administration of a single dose.
The results will be obtained in the first year of analysis, but all volunteers will be followed for a period of five years after vaccination, in accordance with the government.
It is estimated that the vaccine is available to the population in three years.
For the medical director of Clinical Trials of the Butantan Institute, Alexander Precioso, the vaccine was proven in previous studies.
Currently, the only method to prevent and combat the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits dengue is to eliminate breeding sites and potential sources of transmission. There is no vaccine available.
The Butantan Institute, an agency of the Ministry of Health of São Paulo, in partnership with the Center for Clinical Research, Hospital das Clinicas, Faculty of Medicine, will start up in June clinical trials of dengue vaccine.
The number of dengue cases in the State of Sao Paulo fell 93% in 2012 compared with the same period last year, according to the preliminary balance of the Ministry of Health based newsletter produced by the CVE (Center of Epidemiological Surveillance State .)
From January until the last week there were 2,247 indigenous cases (with transmission within the state) of dengue. In the same period last year there were 32,549 confirmed cases of the disease. AA fall occurs despite the entry of the virus type 4 dengue in the state in 2011.
The city of Guaratinguetá, in the Paraíba Valley, leading the number of cases reported to the Secretariat by Sinan, with 408, followed by the municipality of Pontefract, 300, and Potim, 200. The regions of the Paraíba Valley, Araraquara and Ribeirão Preto concentrated 67% of the total dengue cases in the state, with 1,350 confirmations.
So far confirmed one death from dengue in the town of Pontefract, Ribeirão Preto, held in January. In the past there were 50 deaths caused by disease and by 2010, 140 deaths from dengue. Of the 645 municipalities in the State of São Paulo, 490 not registered any case of dengue fever so far.
Source: R7 News
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