Promising Trials for More Affordable Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine

Promising Trials for More Affordable Japanese Encephalitis Vaccine
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Marina Zhang
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Researchers in Queensland are trialling a new alternative to the delivery of the Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccine by injecting the inoculation into the top layer of the skin to increase affordability and take-up numbers in Australia.

“This potential approach could lower the cost of JE vaccination and protect four times as many people per vaccine vial,” Dr Luis Furuya-Kanamori from The University of Queensland (UQ) said.
Marina Zhang
Marina Zhang
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Marina Zhang is a health writer for The Epoch Times, based in New York. She mainly covers stories on COVID-19 and the healthcare system and has a bachelors in biomedicine from The University of Melbourne. Contact her at [email protected].
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