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Cecmed approved its emergency use in children between and years of age, the first child population in the world to be vaccinated and to start the school year with a complete immunization schedule. It should not be surprising that, together with Abdala, Cuba has created two other immunogens against the new coronavirus and already has two more candidates on the way to becoming vaccines. Nor, it should be emphasized, is it the first country to achieve this in Latin America and the Caribbean, and in what we knew as the Third World. Eight of the antigens applied in the island's general vaccination program, which reaches almost one hundred percent of the target population, are manufactured in-house.
Cuba is supported by important and world-renowned scientific achievements in biotechnology and thirty years of experience in the production of immunogens. Among them, it is worth mentioning Argentina Email List the meningococcal BC vaccine created by the Finlay Institute in the late s, the first of its kind worldwide for the control of meningitis B, which received the Gold Medal from the World Intellectual Property Organization. . Its use managed to substantially reduce the incidence of this condition. Another worth mentioning is the vaccine against hepatitis B, which managed to end the effects of this virus in children under years of age in It was also the first in Latin America and the Caribbean certified by the World Health Organization.
Equally important was the achievement by the University of Havana, together with researchers from Cuban biotechnology centers, of the vaccine against haemophilus influenzae b. It also obtained WHO certification, a necessary requirement to be able to provide it to UN agencies. Likewise transcendental was the development by the island of the pentavalent vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis B and haemophilus influenzae b, the second obtained in the world and the first developed and produced by a country in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Cuban vaccines have been obtained under a six-decade US policy of systematic extermination of the Cuban people through hunger and disease.
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发表于 2024-2-15 18:41:26