Greater investments in vaccines are needed in the Asian region as health challenges continue to shift and evolve in the world’s largest continent following the COVID-19 outbreak, according to biopharmaceutical company MSD. | AldenMonzonINQ /PDI
Its research also spans prevention and treatment of diseases in both people and animals, including cancer and other infectious diseases.
“They are at a point now where they are ready to declare that they have eliminated cervical cancer. The reason for that is they invested about 12 years ago in vaccinating their whole population against HPV,” Peacock said. He added measures must also be taken to preemptively address pneumococcal diseases, such as pneumonia and bloodstream infections, as well as rotavirus, which causes diarrhea and other complications among infants and young children.
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