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Vaccine researchers team up with US

Taxi drivers line up for a tuberculosis check in a Suvarnabhumi airport car park in 2017. The examination, part of the ‘Healthy Lung’ campaign of the Disease Control Department, aims to prevent the disease among cabbies. (Photo: Somchai Poomlard)

Thailand’s National Vaccine Institute (NVI) has joined hands with the US Vaccine Research Centre (VRC) for vaccines against tuberculosis, including Messenger RNA (mRNA) technology.

The government said on Monday that senior officials from the Public Health Ministry led by Pongkasem Kaimook, the ministry’s deputy permanent secretary, visited the VRC in the United States on April 20.

The VRC is the world’s leading organisation for vaccine research and has developed 15 vaccine types…

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