Brazil and Paraguay have received 6 million doses of the Stamaril yellow fever vaccine from Sanofi Pasteur, the vaccines division of Sanofi-Aventis. About 30,000 people die every year from yellow fever in Africa and South America. Sanofi Pasteur is the only yellow fever vaccine supplier to the UNICEF.

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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has given GenVec Inc. a Phase I Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) grant to support the development of adenovector-based vaccines for HSV-2 virus. This virus is responsible for a majority of the genital herpes cases.