The six-day state visit of Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto to France was overshadowed by the escape of the drug kingpin, Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán, from a maximum security prison, but it was a productive trip which saw the signing of some 60 cooperation agreements ranging from environmental protection to education to health. The most significant of these in the long-run is likely to be a vaccine against dengue. The prevalence of this debilitating virus is on the rise, claiming 76 lives in Mexico in 2014 but affecting tens of thousands. Mexico could now become the first country in the world to introduce the vaccine in 2016.
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