Cuban researchers develop synthetic vaccine against pneumonia and meningitis

Sunday, November 16, 2003

HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuban researchers have produced the first synthetic vaccine against pneumonia and meningitis, press reports said here Saturday.

Vicente Verez, head of the University of Havana's Antigen Research Center, told the Cuban press agency AIN the vaccine would be presented to a biotechnology congress here November 23-28.

He said the vaccine was designed to be administered to infants in three doses -- at two, four and six months -- with a booster at 18 months.

Clinical studies done in Camaguay in central Cuba showed that more than 99 percent of babies vaccinated developed antibodies against the pneumonia and meningitis viruses as well as other diseases, he said.

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