{"id":29534,"date":"2024-04-20T12:03:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T12:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/04\/20\/who-prequalifies-new-oral-simplified-vaccine-for-cholera\/"},"modified":"2024-04-20T12:03:41","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T12:03:41","slug":"who-prequalifies-new-oral-simplified-vaccine-for-cholera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/who-prequalifies-new-oral-simplified-vaccine-for-cholera\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO prequalifies new oral simplified vaccine for cholera"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row sf-detail-content\">\n<div class=\"sf_colsIn col-md-8\">\n<div class=\"sf-item-header-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"date\"><strong>The World Health Organization (WHO) on 12 April prequalified a new oral vaccine for cholera. <\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"date\">According to a statement by WHO, the inactivated oral vaccine Euvichol-S has a similar efficacy to existing vaccines but a simplified formulation, allowing opportunities to rapidly increase production capacity.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row sf-detail-content\">\n<div class=\"sf_colsIn col-md-8\">\n<p>\u201cThe new vaccine is the third product of the same family of vaccines we have for cholera in our WHO prequalification list,\u201d said Dr Rogerio Gaspar, Director of the WHO Department for Regulation and Prequalification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new prequalification is hoped to enable a rapid increase in production and supply which many communities battling with cholera outbreaks urgently need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WHO prequalification list already includes Euvichol and Euvichol-Plus inactivated oral cholera vaccines produced by EuBiologicals Co., Ltd, Republic of Korea, which also produces the new vaccine Euvichol-S.Vaccines provide the fastest intervention to prevent, limit and control cholera outbreaks but supplies have been at the lowest point amidst countries facing dire shortcomings in other areas of cholera prevention and management such as safe water, hygiene and sanitation.<\/p>\n<p>There were 473 000 cholera cases reported to WHO in 2022 \u2013 double the number from 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Further increase of cases by 700 000 was estimated for 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, 23 countries are reporting cholera outbreaks with most severe impacts seen in the Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Somalia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/who-prequalifies-new-oral-simplified-vaccine-for-cholera\/\">WHO prequalifies new oral simplified vaccine for cholera<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) on 12 April prequalified a new oral vaccine for cholera. According to a statement by WHO, the inactivated oral vaccine Euvichol-S has a similar efficacy to existing vaccines but a simplified formulation, allowing opportunities to rapidly increase production capacity. \u201cThe new vaccine is the third product of the same family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}