Zikavaccin development faster than expected

Zikavaccin development faster than expected

World May 21, 2016 15:12

- The development of a vaccine against the zikavirus is a lot faster than expected. Where previously it was assumed that it would be at least twelve months before a vaccine is ready, it is expected to last nine months.,, That's a record time '', reported the Brazilian Health Minister Ricardo Barros.

Both at the University of Texas in the United States and the Evandro Chagas Institute in Brazil's Pará is being developed as a vaccine. The intention is that the first test to be carried out in November on monkeys and mice. Then the vaccine should at last be available to everyone in 2018. Going than a single dose.

The zikavirus, which is mainly spread by mosquitoes, can can lead to serious defects in unborn babies.
  
    
     
      
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