Philippines launches world's first mass dengue vaccination

Monday, April 4, 2016 - 08:51 in Health & Medicine

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The Philippines on Monday launched the first public immunization program for dengue fever, seeking to administer to a million schoolchildren the world's first licensed vaccine against a mosquito-borne disease that the World Health Organization estimates infects 390 million people a year globally....

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