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World’s 1st dengue vaccine likely by 2015: Sanofi
As India deals with increasing number of dengue fever, pharma major Sanofi today said the world's first vaccine against the mosquito-borne viral disease may be available by the second half of 2015.
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Bill Gates-Backed Group Weighs Funding for Ebola Vaccine
As GlaxoSmithKline Plc (GSK) and other drugmakers race to develop and deploy vaccines against West Africa’s Ebola outbreak, one key question remains: who will pay?
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Backed by Gates, Affinivax Ramps up Velcro-like Vaccine Tech
A new startup with backing by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation called Affinivax claims it’s created a vaccine to protect against all 90 strains of pneumococcal bacteria. Now comes the hard part: scaling up, proving it in clinical trials, and making a successful business out of it.
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Vaccine group says 5 million-plus lives can be saved over next few years in poor countries
GAVI Alliance believes its five-year plan to vaccinate another 300 million children worldwide will save at least 5 million lives. It will also save billions of dollars now lost to treatment of the preventable illnesses and other costs, like parents' lost wages, members of the alliance said.
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Defying stigma, survivors join the Ebola fight in West Africa
The worst outbreak of Ebola on record has killed 5,000 people in West Africa, mostly in Guinea and neighbouring Liberia and Sierra Leone. But thousands more have survived, ostracised by fearful communities ravaged by the disease.
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Weekly Roundup – 10/25/14: Why Ebola could spell collaboration for drugmakers and even adversarial countries
Amid all the finger-wagging about Ebola, two pharmaceutical giants have decided to collaborate to find a cure. What else could happen if we look at infectious diseases through a different prism?
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Drugmakers to join forces to make millions of Ebola vaccine doses
Leading drugmakers plan to work together to accelerate development of an Ebola vaccine and produce millions of doses of the most effective experimental product for use next year.
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Pharma companies feel law change can weaken ability to provide low-cost drugs
Indian drugmakers and public health activists are deeply worried that sections of the American pharmaceutical industry may use the recently announced Indo-US working committee on intellectual property rights to force changes in Indian patent laws to further their commercial interests at the cost of the domestic industry.
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