Aécio Amado
Reporter - Agência Brasil

Rio - Exports of yellow fever vaccines by the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz) have grown no less than 560% in the last three years, going from 5 million doses in 2002, to an expected 28 million doses this year, reports the manager of the Market Relations Department at Fiocruz, Cristiane Frensch Pereira.

Pereira says Brazil has become the world's biggest exporter of yellow fever vaccines since it began exporting in 1986. The foundation's Biomanguinhos laboratory has an installed capacity to produce up to 38 million doses of the vaccine annually, says Pereira. "Today we export to 54 countries, mainly in Asia and Latin America," explained Pereira, as Fiocruz prepared a lot of 4.5 million doses that will go to Peru this week.

Translation: Allen Bennett