Zika virus vaccine in the works
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A French drug company is working on a vaccine to prevent the Zika virus. The announcement from Sanofi Pasteur of France comes a day after the World Health Organization declared a global emergency over the mosquito-borne virus. It’s been linked to birth defects in south and central America.
Zika is in the same family of viruses as dengue. Sanofi made the first licensed dengue vaccine shot, licensed last year in Brazil, and claims its experience with the dengue vaccine “can be rapidly leveraged to help understand the spread” of Zika.
