Vietnam first licensed dengue fever vaccine

The Drug Administration of Vietnam, Ministry of Health has just licensed the dengue fever vaccine produced by Takeda Company (Japan) called Qdenga.

This is the first dengue vaccine licensed in Vietnam and is also a sustainable measure, effectively supporting the medical force in prevention and treatment.

The dengue vaccine produced by Takeda Pharmaceutical (Japan) has been approved in more than 30 countries, including the European Union, the UK, Brazil, Argentina, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. This vaccine has also been approved and used for national immunization programs in Brazil and Argentina.

Conduct disinfection spraying of dengue fever outbreak.

The vaccine is used for people aged 4 years and older, regardless of whether they have had dengue fever or not. This is the first dengue vaccine licensed in Vietnam for individuals without the need for testing before vaccination.

The newly approved dengue vaccine is expected to be available in Vietnam from September 2024.

Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne viral disease that poses a serious threat to human health worldwide, circulating in more than 125 countries. Along with climate change, dengue fever is increasingly increasing, putting pressure and overload on domestic medical facilities. In Dak Lak province, in the first 5 months of 2024, the whole province recorded 300 cases of dengue fever.

While waiting for the dengue fever vaccine to be available in Vietnam, the health sector recommends that the main and most effective disease prevention measure at present is to kill mosquitoes, kill larvae, and prevent mosquito bites. People need to check, detect and kill larvae in water containers by regularly washing, covering tanks and water containers, releasing fish to kill larvae; removing waste materials, natural water holes, turning over unused water containers, dropping salt or larvae-killing chemicals into aquariums, rockeries, and refrigerator waste water trays; sleeping under mosquito nets to prevent mosquito bites even during the day, wearing long-sleeved clothes, using mosquito sprays, mosquito coils, and electric rackets to kill mosquitoes and prevent mosquito bites...

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