Six vaccines in one dose. What could possibly go wrong? Well, a lot, actually. But that’s not stopping the country’s health officials from pursuing the sacred super vaccine that would allow them to vaccinate their population with much greater ease.
According to Vietnam News.
HÀ N?I – Vi?t Nam is expected to produce six-in-one vaccines in 2017 or 2018 and by 2020 these will be used widely in the country, according to the health ministry.
Vi?t Nam already manufactures 11 out of 12 vaccines used in the nationwide expanded free immunisation programme for children, including vaccines against tuberculosis, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus, measles, poliomyelitis, hepatitis B, Japanese meningitis B, cholera, typhoid and rubella. In November 2016, Viêt Nam announced the successful production of a measles-rubella vaccine (MR) for the first time.
Vi?t Nam is one of only 25 countries in the world that can produce vaccines and is the fourth in Asia to manufacture the MR vaccine, following Japan, India, and China, the Nhân Dân (People) weekly