What is the current vaccine available for dengue?

What is the current vaccine available for dengue?

Dengue Vaccine Globally A vaccine to prevent dengue (Dengvaxia®) is licensed and available in some countries for people aged 9 to 45 years. The World Health Organization recommends that the vaccine only be given to persons with confirmed previous dengue virus infection.

What is the name of the vaccine of dengue?

Clinical illness following dengue virus infection can either be mild and self-limiting dengue fever or severe dengue hemorrhagic fever/dengue shock syndrome, with potentially fatal consequences. A live attenuated vaccine known as Dengvaxia, developed by Sanofi, was licensed in 2015.

Can dengue be prevented by vaccine?

Vaccine efficacy against confirmed dengue pooled across both trials was 59.2% in the year following the primary series (per protocol analysis). During this initial time period, pooled vaccine efficacy against severe dengue was 79.1%.

Who discovered the vaccine of dengue?

Dengue Vaccines During World War II, live attenuated virus vaccines were developed independently by passaging DENV-1 serially in suckling mouse brain.

Does dengue have a vaccine?

Dengvaxia® (CYD-TDV), which has been developed by Sanofi Pasteur, Lyon, France, is the first licensed vaccine against dengue that is available internationally. This vaccine has been extensively evaluated in over 40,000 people across 15 different countries, including India.

Can I get dengue twice?

It is possible to get dengue more than once. Dengue is caused by a virus which has four different strains. Being affected by one strain offers no protection against the others. A person can suffer from dengue more than once in her/his lifetime.

Can I be immune to dengue?

Recovery from infection by one dengue virus provides lifelong immunity against that particular virus serotype. However, this immunity confers only partial and transient protection against subsequent infection by the other three serotypes of the virus.