Zika Update

Testing a new vaccine; Cuba’s aggressive Zika-control tactics pay off

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Researchers have begun testing a new Zika vaccine in human volunteers in the first of five trials that the candidate vaccine will need to pass to be widely implemented, the National Institutes of Health announced Monday (November 7). The Zika Purified Inactivated Virus (ZPIV) vaccine contains whole viruses that are intact but unable to replicate.

“We urgently need a safe and effective vaccine to protect people from Zika virus infection as the virus continues to spread,” said National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci in the statment. The trial is being conducted at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Meanwhile, health officials in the U.S. are noting that Cuba’s aggressive measures to halt the virus’s spread in ...

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