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Thailand succeeds in developing influenza vaccine
BANGKOK, August 3 (TNA) - The Government Pharmaceutical Organization (GPO) has successfully developed its own live influenza vaccine after two years of research.
Chairman of GPO Dr Wichai Chokewiwat on Wednesday announced the successful vaccine development, in which clinical tests on 324 volunteers aged between 12 and 49 had yielded no serious side effects. He said the vaccine also proved to be safe for children aged between 12 and 18, although several cases recorded minor rises in body temperature.
With 150-million-baht funding from the World Health Organization and technological support from Russia, Wichai admitted the project was still delayed due to a difficulty in finding volunteers who had not been immunized from influenza.
As a future plan, the GPO chairman said his agency planned to develop other inactivated influenza vaccines, and to produce them at its own plant in Thab Kwang district, Saraburi province, possibly in four years time.
He noted so far the Thai government had allocated 1.4 billion baht for the research, which also received technological support from a Japanese vaccine company Kaketsuken. (TNA)
Chairman of GPO Dr Wichai Chokewiwat on Wednesday announced the successful vaccine development, in which clinical tests on 324 volunteers aged between 12 and 49 had yielded no serious side effects. He said the vaccine also proved to be safe for children aged between 12 and 18, although several cases recorded minor rises in body temperature.
With 150-million-baht funding from the World Health Organization and technological support from Russia, Wichai admitted the project was still delayed due to a difficulty in finding volunteers who had not been immunized from influenza.
As a future plan, the GPO chairman said his agency planned to develop other inactivated influenza vaccines, and to produce them at its own plant in Thab Kwang district, Saraburi province, possibly in four years time.
He noted so far the Thai government had allocated 1.4 billion baht for the research, which also received technological support from a Japanese vaccine company Kaketsuken. (TNA)
