Daewoong launches oral typhoid fever vaccine

  • Daewoong Pharmaceutical said that it has launched Vivotif, an oral typhoid fever vaccine, in the local market
  • Vivotif is the only typhoid fever vaccine in Korea that received approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and European Medicines Agency
  • In a clinical study of 10,594 patients in Santiago, Chile, where typhoid fever was present, a single dose of Vivotif showed that it prevented typhoid fever in 71 percent of the patients in its first year, and 67 percent of the patients after three years