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Hawaii Biotech has reached an agreement with
Meridian Biotech on the development of a vaccine for dengue fever. Dengue
viruses infected between 50 million and 100 million people each year, and dengue
fever causes about 20,000 deaths worldwide. Hawaii Biotech has created a
vaccine against all four dengue viruses, and Meridian's facilities in Memphis
will be used to produce the vaccine for clinical tests in humans.
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-- Albert Einstein, letter to a friend, 1901
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"What's the point of vaccination if it doesn't protect you from the unvaccinated?"
-- Sandy Gottstein
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