Nature
Volume 491 Number 7422 pp7-154 1 November 2012
http://www.nature.com/nature/current_issue.html
News in Focus
Hepatitis E vaccine debuts
Success of Chinese biotech partnership raises hopes for prevention of overlooked diseases.
Soo Bin Park
Batches of the world’s first vaccine against the hepatitis E virus began rolling out of a Chinese factory last week, promising to stem a disease that every year infects about 20 million people and claims 70,000 lives. The vaccine is being hailed as a victory for an unusual public–private partnership that could set a precedent in China’s burgeoning biotechnology sector, and help to deliver other vaccines for diseases overlooked in the West…
http://www.nature.com/news/hepatitis-e-vaccine-debuts-1.11687