Thai researcher eyes affordable, accessible coronavirus vaccine for SE Asia

[snoop1130]

Thai researcher eyes affordable, accessible coronavirus vaccine for SE Asia

By Panu Wongcha-um and Juarawee Kittisilpa

 

A researcher works inside a laboratory of Chulalongkorn University during the development of an mRNA type vaccine candidate for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Bangkok, Thailand, May 25, 2020. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha

 

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A researcher leading Thailand's push to manufacture a coronavirus vaccine says its aim is to make it cost-effective and accessible to Southeast Asia, and play a part in preventing a supply shortage globally.

 

Thailand's government announced last week its plans to have a vaccine ready for deployment next year after researchers at Bangkok's Chulalongkorn University successfully conducted trials on mice.

 

"We don't aim for making money. It's not a money issue but an accessibility one," said Kiat Ruxrungtham, director of the university's coronavirus vaccine development.

 

Thai trials of the experimental vaccine using monkeys started on Saturday, one of at least 100 potential vaccines in the works around the world.

 

Kiat's group has partnered with scientists and biotech companies in North America and wants to mass produce the vaccine in Thailand, at a price more affordable there and in nearby markets like Indonesia, Malaysia, Laos, Vietnam and Myanmar.

 

With just over 3,000 cases and 57 deaths, Thailand has had some success in controlling the spread of the coronavirus and has started easing some restrictions.

 

In the past month it has typically been reporting cases each day of less than 10, compared to hundreds being confirmed daily in Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines.

 

"If our neighbours still have high infection numbers then we won't survive as well in the long term," Kiat added.

 

He said it was important not to rely only on major economies to develop and manufacture coronavirus vaccines, or there could be supply bottlenecks.

 

"Lets say there is proof that it works, how can the manufacturing facility make millions or billions of doses?" he said.

 

"So a country like us, a small country, we need to step up and then do our own work as well."

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-05-25

 

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[mr mr]

8 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

"We don't aim for making money. It's not a money issue but an accessibility one," said Kiat Ruxrungtham, director of the university's coronavirus vaccine development.

this is amazing news. god bless Kiat for having such a huge heart at a time like this by giving the vaccine away for free. way to go.

[sammieuk1]

Only one side effect????

 

[smedly]

5 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Only one side effect????

 

just as well all these research labs are run by farangs or we'd all be looking like that 

 

there is nothing coming from Thailand, they talk it up but just don't have the expertise - simple as that

 

The Hub of trying to be a Hub

[torturedsole]

I have three legs due to scientific experiments.  

[liddelljohn]

Thai Vaccine   ,,its Cheap  so thats good enuf!!!!!  does it work   ?????   who cares its cheap and its Thai made ,,,,sorted ,, reopen the Agogos   , Bars everything   ,,,...... lets make money ,,,,,

[Relocated]

40 minutes ago, torturedsole said:

I have three legs due to scientific experiments.  

Two equal length legs and one short between them is normal. Nothing to do with experiment. 

[Ratchsima]

1 hour ago, smedly said:

just as well all these research labs are run by farangs or we'd all be looking like that 

 

there is nothing coming from Thailand, they talk it up but just don't have the expertise - simple as that

 

The Hub of trying to be a Hub

Yes , and there are none of these comming out from Thailand too.

For example , stupid herd immunity

or injecting disinfectant into human body to kill virus

or people keep burning 5g tower due to coronavirus conspiracy

or the forgoten rotten piles of covid19 dead bodies in trucks

or people fight aganist doctors and nurses, just because they dont want to stay home and want hair cut.

or most importantly , people dying from covid19 like valueless animals due to brainless policies, behaviours,egoism, STUPIDITIES of people on every level of societies.

 

 

these pathetic smart ass  things coming out from where again?? 

 

Natural selection are working very hard here in 2020.

 

Edited May 25, 2020 by Ratchsima

[ChrisY1]

Once a genuine vaccine is developed and produced, a generic vaccine will be produced locally.....as most drugs are.

[hotchilli]

12 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

"We don't aim for making money. It's not a money issue but an accessibility one," said Kiat Ruxrungtham, director of the university's coronavirus vaccine development.

 

[Bender Rodriguez]

you know mRNA will change YOUR DNA ... transhumanism at top

 

experts are warning that people getting the vaccine should not try to get children... I wonder why

[Deli]

1 hour ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

you know mRNA will change YOUR DNA ... transhumanism at top

 

experts are warning that people getting the vaccine should not try to get children... I wonder why

Don't need the vaccine to have this wish, as long as I physically could do it...

[spermwhale]

The day Thai researchers develop any vaccine is the day I'll cut off my left nut and feed it to the crows. Now way, now how. They are inept and do not have the protocols or brains in place to do develop any world class medicine. I challenge anybody to name a single medicine used around the world that was developed by Thais. 

[NoshowJones]

12 hours ago, torturedsole said:

I have three legs due to scientific experiments.  

Is your name Rolf Harris by any chance? ????

[mikecha]

13 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Only one side effect????

 

in these times you are not funny at all  grow up 

many people lost life loves ones here me included

[3NUMBAS]

13 hours ago, torturedsole said:

I have three legs due to scientific experiments.  

rolf harris beat you to it ..jake the peg

[DrTuner]

Cheap vaccine? Monkeys and peanuts come to mind .. could just as well inject clorox.

[3NUMBAS]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52801858

 

Coronavirus doctor's diary: The drug combination that may help us beat Covid-19

Dr John Wright of Bradford Royal Infirmary (BRI) describes some of the trials under way to find a cure for Covid-19, and suggests that a combination of three different types of drug may hold the key.

At BRI we are now participating in eight different clinical trials to try and find a cure for Covid-19.

We are part of a huge international effort. It feels like all the light of global science has been concentrated into a laser beam directed at this almost invisible virus.

The biggest of the trials we are involved in is the Recovery trial. Already more than 10,000 patients have been recruited nationwide and are taking either a placebo or one of a number of other drugs. (I wrote about this important trial last month.)

Last week at BRI we recruited the first patient in the UK for a small trial to test whether a new drug made by AstraZeneca is safe and effective. This is one of a number of small trials - jointly referred to as the Accord trial - designed to assess further drugs that may be added to the Recovery trial.

The hope is that this AstraZeneca drug, which does not yet have a name, will help to damp down a dangerous overreaction of the immune system that occurs in a small proportion of patients, sending the body into shock and closing down vital organs, such as the lungs, heart, blood vessels and kidney.

This overreaction has been referred to as a "cytokine storm" - cytokines being molecules that flag up the presence of an infection that the body must fight. The drug in the new trial blocks a cytokine called IL-33 (or interleukin-33).

[sammieuk1]

7 hours ago, mikecha said:

in these times you are not funny at all  grow up 

many people lost life loves ones here me included

A tad more funny than you it appears and for your info my father to ????

[JeffyInBkk]

They first invented the cure for HIV and also the HIV vaccine then they were the first to discover a cure and vaccine for Ebola and also Zika and then a cure for COVID-19  ....just  hot air and BS........and we know what type of media covers such articles