Iran’s Pasteur Institute Produces Bladder Cancer, Pasteurellosis vaccines
“For the first time after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, we exported the BCG vaccine (for tuberculosis disease) to Venezuela,” Rahim Sarvari, the president of the Pasteur Institute of Iran, told reporters on a visit to Iran Media Expo 2024 in Tehran.
“Also, after making Pastocovok vaccine (or Soberana which is a COVID-19 vaccine jointly produced with Cuba’s Finlay), we are working on a new vaccine called Pasteurellosis vaccine,” Sarvari added.
Referring to the diagnostic measures for monkeypox (Mpox), the president of the Pasteur Institute of Iran said, “As regards this issue, we have assigned 12 centers and detected only one case in Khuzestan Province and prevented the spread of the virus in the country.”
“We have produced Omicron detection kits for all sub-variants of Corona,” he added.
Saying that the Pasteur Institute is one of the Iranian institutions that have taken giant steps in the direction of people's health, Sarvari added, “The progress in health field [in Iran] owes too much to the Pasteur Institute. The establishment of the field of biotechnology was a big step for the production of other vaccines.”
“In the field of production, in addition to vaccines, injectable solutions are also produced,” he continued.
“The production of detection kits such as monkeypox, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) and Covid-19 is underway,” the president of the Pasteur Institute concluded.
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