The new vaccine, oral rotavirus vaccine candidate, RV3, is aimed at reducing diseases and death from diarrhoeal disease. (Illustration)

Vietnam launches first influenza vaccine factory

REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, HANOI -- Vietnam on Thursday inaugurated its first influenza vaccine manufacturing factory in south central coastal Khanh Hoa Province, some 1,040 km south of capital Hanoi.Funded by the World Health Organization (WHO), the factory has a capacity of around 1.5 million doses of influenza vaccine a year, reported Vietnam's state-run news agency VNA on Thursday.The factory project began...