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BEIJING, May 5 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Sinovac Biotech Ltd. (Nasdaq: SVA), a leading China-based vaccine manufacturer, announced today that its 30%-owned joint venture, Sinovac Dalian, has submitted an application to China's State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) to commence human clinical trials for its mumps vaccine. The proprietary mumps vaccine developed by Sinovac Dalian represents not only the first live attenuated vaccine for which Sinovac has filed a clinical trial application,...

An inhalable measles vaccine will soon be tested in humans according to researchers at the 238th meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington, DC.The goal of the vaccine is to make immunization possible in remote areas of the world, where measles is still prevalent, said Dr. Robert Sievers, who is leading a team of researchers developing the vaccine.According to the World Health Organization (WHO), measles kills over 900,000 children each year, primarily in the less developed...