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The Pros and Cons of Dengue Vaxia
There are, I think, four or five vaccines under study. There's one called dengue vaxia that was licensed in 2015. This is currently, you can get this vaccine in a number of different countries. It was actually approved by the FDA for the U.S. in May of 2019. But when they went back and like over time did some longer term studies, what they realized is that if you give this vaccine to people who have never been infected with dengue, it isn't providing complete immunity against all four strains.