Sunday, January 18, 2004

CUBA'S BIOTECHNICAL CAPACITY INCREASING
"Exports of Cuban biotechnology products increased by 30% during the three-year period 2001-2003. According to Daniel Codorniu, first deputy minister of science, technology and the environment (CITMA), in Havana, the Cuban synthetic vaccine against Type B Haemophilus influenzae (Hib), which causes meningitis, pneumonia and otitis during early childhood, constituted the most important achievement of 2003...
Quimi-Hib presents - according to clinical studies - 99.7% long-term protection against a bacterium that causes the death of half a million babies on the planet.
(GRANMA, unearthed by Cuba Daily News Digest)

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