BANGKOK (Reuters): Thailand expects to have a vaccine for the novel coronavirus ready next year, a senior official said on Wednesday (May 20), after finding positive trial results in mice.
Thailand will begin testing the mRNA vaccine in monkeys next week after successful trials in mice, said Taweesin Wisanuyothin, spokesman for the government's Centre for Covid-19 Situation Administration.More than 100 potential vaccines for Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, are being developed, including several in clinical trials, but the World Health Organisation in April had warned that a vaccine would take at least 12 months.
Messenger RNA prompts body cells to produce so-called antigens, molecules on the surface of viruses, that spur the immune system into action. US drugmaker Moderna Inc's experimental Covid-19 vaccine, the first to be tested in the United States, produced protective antibodies in a small group of healthy volunteers, according to very early data released by the company on Monday.
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