{"id":659634,"date":"2023-11-10T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T04:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/?p=659634"},"modified":"2023-11-10T21:28:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T01:28:47","slug":"a-new-leap-in-health-vaccine-for-chikungunya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/659634\/","title":{"rendered":"A new leap in health; Vaccine for chikungunya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-659635\" src=\"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/chikungunya-vaccine-750x394-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"394\" \/>Washington: Chikungunya vaccine approved.\u00a0The US Department of Health has approved the world&#8217;s first chikungunya vaccine.\u00a0Valneva company has developed a vaccine against this mosquito-borne viral disease.\u00a0The name given to the wax is X-Chic.\u00a0The vaccine is initially given to people over 18 years of age.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It is a single dose drug given as an injection into the muscle.\u00a0The safety of the vaccine was confirmed after a two-phase clinical trial in North America.\u00a0The trial was conducted on 3,500 people aged 18 years and above.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Food and Drug Administration has designated chikungunya as an &#8217;emerging global health threat&#8217;.\u00a0<\/span><span>Although not fatal, the disease can be serious for people with weakened immune systems.\u00a0<\/span><span>Chicken Gunia&#8217;s African name means bent over, bent over in pain.\u00a0<\/span><span>The disease is spread by female mosquitoes of the species Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: Chikungunya vaccine approved.\u00a0The US Department of Health has approved the world&#8217;s first chikungunya vaccine.\u00a0Valneva company has developed a vaccine against this mosquito-borne viral disease.\u00a0The name given to the wax is X-Chic.\u00a0The vaccine is initially given to people over 18 years of age. It is a single dose drug given as an injection into the muscle.\u00a0The safety of the vaccine was confirmed after a two-phase clinical trial in North America.\u00a0The trial was conducted on 3,500 people aged 18 years and above. The Food and Drug Administration has designated chikungunya as&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":659635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659636,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659634\/revisions\/659636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}