Dengue vaccine strategy

A student grimaces as a nurse administers the anti-dengue vaccine at Parang Elementary School in Marikina, west of Manila on April 4, 2016.The Philippines began injecting up to one million school children with the worlds first vaccine for dengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral infection that is a leading cause of serious illness and death among children in some Asian and Latin American countries. / AFP PHOTO / NOEL CELIS

AS reported in The Star, the new dengue vaccine has already been used on 150,000 school children in the Philippines with only 240 (0.16%) having mild adverse events.

The Philippines plans to give a million doses to secondary school children in public schools and, despite the previous efficacy trials on 40,000 individuals in Asia and Latin America, we are still waiting to see the real world effectiveness of this vaccine.