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Katja Hamilton
Demand for dengue vaccine to exceed supply
Decades in the making, the dengue vaccine's arrival is now in sight, but demand from the 2.5 billion people at risk of contracting this mosquito-borne disease will be much greater than the initial supply, health experts warn.
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"The vaccine is just around the corner, but the corner is four years from now," Luiz Jacintho da Silva, director of the South Korea-based International Vaccine Institute (IVI), an organisation strategising vaccine distribution, told IRIN. "It is promising, but not an answer to all of our prayers." Read on.
