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United States: Inaction on Zika funding likely to delay vaccine testing, says scientists

United States: Inaction on Zika funding likely to delay vaccine testing, says scientists

Washington: Government research into finding a vaccine to protect against the Zika virus is likely to be delayed if Congress exits Washington through Labor Day without approving new money to battle the virus, a top government research scientist said.The delay in funding vaccine development is perhaps the most damaging result of a divided Washington's inability to agree on an anti-Zika funding bill five months after President Barack Obama's request."It's going to take that much longer to prove that the vaccine works," said Dr. Anthony Fauci on Sunday, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, who says testing next January on a promising vaccine faces delays.


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University of Pittsburgh announces Zika vaccine success with mice

University of Pittsburgh announces Zika vaccine success with mice

Two experimental vaccines developed at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine successfully have blocked transmission of the virus from female mice to their pups conceived weeks after the vaccination.A Pitt statement says both vaccines protected the pups against neurological damage better than those lacking immunity to the virus from the mother.The results were published online today in the journal EBioMedicine.


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Zika vaccine trials have graduated from monkeys to humans, but still far off

Zika vaccine trials have graduated from monkeys to humans, but still far off

This article was originally published on The Conversation.Recent news articles have highlighted positive findings in experimental Zika virus pre-clinical vaccine studies in monkeys and described the start of two Zika virus vaccine trials in humans.These stories have spurred hopes that a Zika virus vaccine will be available to prevent this infection, and its secondary effects, such as abnormal fetal development.

United States: Inaction on Zika funding likely to delay vaccine testing, says scientists