Two Mexican vaccines

Scientists at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) received the Award for Medical Research Dr. George Rosenkranz, 2007, which gives the company Roche in the area of Epidemiology, for having developed a vaccine against swine cysticercosis, allowing en masse to immunize pigs in rural areas. The team hopes soon to make an oral vaccine for ease of administration to animals, which not only reduce costs but will increase the possibility of coverage. For their part, scientists from the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) working on the creation of a vaccine against diarrheal diseases that affect children under five. The vaccine to fight a micro-organism called Campylobacter, which can attack an adult person and cause an infection a week, but that a child under five years can be dehydrated during that time. Diarrhea caused by Campylobacter, is characterized by a bloody flux, a product of the damage caused in the intestine.