Tuesday, 4 December 2018

New Zika vaccine effective in preclinical trials

(University of Hawaii at Manoa) Researchers at the University of Hawaii medical school have successfully developed a vaccine candidate for the Zika virus, showing that it is effective in protecting both mice and monkeys from the infection.Demonstrating the effectiveness of their vaccine candidate in monkeys (non-human primates) is an important milestone because it typically predicts the vaccine will work in humans, enabling further clinical development.

from EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science https://ift.tt/2G2Hzcf

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