Results Are Promising in Clinical Trial of Dengue Fever Vaccine

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The French pharmaceutical company Sanofi said on Monday that its experimental vaccine for dengue fever had succeeded in its first late-stage clinical trial. The results could help pave the way for the introduction of the first vaccine to prevent a disease that afflicts an estimated 50 million to 100 million people a year.

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Malaysia Moves to Contain Deadly MERS Virus

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Authorities have tracked down nearly 200 people in Malaysia, including passengers of two Turkish Airlines flights, who came into contact with a man who recently died from a deadly viral disease from the Middle East.

The 54-year-old man who died on April 13 contracted Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, while on a pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. His death was the first MERS death recorded in Southeast Asia. As of Sunday, no new case of the virus had been detected in Malaysia, said health authorities.

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