Dengue Vaccine Qdenga & Nine Drugs Win EMA Thumbs Up

The European Medicines Agency has delivered its verdict on marketing applications for a raft of new medicines.

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The European Medicines Agency has recommended pan-EU marketing approval for 10 new products, including Qdenga, Takeda Pharmaceutical’s dengue vaccine, which the agency also simultaneously recommended for approval in low- and middle-income non-EU countries.

Qdenga (dengue tetravalent vaccine (live, attenuated)) is for the prevention of dengue virus serotypes 1, 2, 3 and 4 in people from four years of age. It is the first...

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