本帖最后由 choi 于 12-10-2015 12:13 编辑
Denise Roland and Noemie Bisserbe, Sanofi's Vaccine Gets Nod; Mexico has approved teh company's drug against dengue fever, but hasn't set price yet. Wall Street Journal, Dec 10, 2015.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/mexi ... s-remain-1449676613
My comment:
(a) Dengue fever has become epidemic in southern Taiwan.
(b) "Sanofi was founded in 1973 as subsidiary of Elf Aquitaine." en.wikipedia.org. The word Sanofi, which is meaningless, was coined because "its consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel structure is easier to pronounce in many different languages." company website.
(c) Sanofi's vaccine "was most effective at protecting against severe dengue, the potentially fatal form of the disease * * * Dengue infects about 390 million people a year globally, 96 million of whom require treatment, according to the WHO. Only the most severe cases, about 500,000 a year, are admitted to a hospital, though a large proportion of these are children."
Most patients with dengue fever recover on their own. Only if those patients who are infected a second strain of the virus develop into severe form (why? Nobody knows), which is "dengue hemorrhagic fever," causing bleeding and other symptoms. |