Showing posts with label Chimerivax. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chimerivax. Show all posts

Saturday, September 7, 2013

NIAID-DVI --A Preamble: The Sanofi Dengue Vaccine Failure (Chimerivax)

Blog Series: NIAID-DVI

A preamble: The Sanofi dengue vaccine failure, ChimeriVax

So given I am not daily entrenched in the world of vaccine development, the most that I ever heard about dengue vaccines was that there were several out there in development and Sanofi's was the furthest along. Then I heard the Sanofi vaccine failed. It illicited good response to dengue 1, 3 and 4 and did a fantastic fail on dengue serotype 2.

I could end this blog there but my curiosity and incessant need to comb the internet and literature revealed just how 'fantastic' of a fail this was: