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InViragen Receives Funding From the Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, December 4th, 2007

InViragen announced that the company will receive financial support from the Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative (PDVI). The PDVI grant will provide funds for manufacture of Inviragen's dengue vaccine in preparation for testing in human clinical trials.

Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne illness, prevalent in tropical and subtropical countries throughout the world. Approximately 3.5 billion people live in endemic countries and about 100 million people are infected with dengue every year according to recent estimates published by the PDVI. Infection by any one of four dengue viruses can lead to a debilitating fever or, in a subset of cases, can lead to life-threatening...

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