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Sunday 2 June 2013

He is the First Vaccine for Disease Hand, Foot, and Mouth in Children

He is the First Vaccine for Disease Hand, Foot, and Mouth in Children

What is a disease of the hands, feet and mouth? Disease characterized by a rash on the three parts of the body is often perch on the children, especially those under the age of 10 years. So far no researcher who discovered the vaccine.

According to the WHO, outbreaks of foot disease, hand, and mouth it actually happens once every few years in various parts of the world. But lately these outbreaks occurred more frequently in the region with an increase in the number of cases of illness legs, hands, and mouth occured in China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

Chinese lucky number of researchers claim to have developed the first vaccine that can protect children from the virus called enterovirus 71 or EV71, the main cause of foot disease, hand, and mouth are deadly.

Vaccines of EV71 virus that disabled Vigoo Biological Beijing's artificial is designed specifically for use in the Asia-Pacific region, where the most frequent reported cases of illness legs, hands, and mouth which can lead to serious other fatal disorders of the brain such as meningitis and encephalitis.

In an experiment, researchers revealed that Beijing Vigoo vaccine has been proven to provide protection against diseases legs, hands, and mouth caused by EV71 by 90 percent. Meanwhile, within the last 12 months, the level of protection reached 80.4 percent.

The experiments conducted at four locations in China, three in Jiangsu province and one location in Beijing, involving 10,245 babies and children aged 6-35 months who were given two doses of vaccine or placebo at random.

"The vaccine is safe and well tolerated. Effect is the same side, both in participants taking the vaccine or a placebo," said lead researcher Feng-Cai Zhu from Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control as reported nbcnews, Sunday (2/6 / 2013).

Even so, researchers warn that they have not been able to prove that the vaccine can protect children from other viruses that coxsackievirus A 16, which is often found circulating and causing illness along EV71 legs, hands, and mouth.

Responding to these findings, Nigel Crawford and Steve Graham of the University of Melbourne and Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Australia said, "The results of this trial should be spread to all corners of the world. But of course by involving the results of experiments to see the effectiveness of this vaccine against type EV71 is more prevalent epidemics in other countries such as Singapore, Malaysia and Japan. "

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