Zika Vaccine Trials Move Forward as Florida Health Agencies Assert They Are Prepared for a Potential Outbreak stat : Contagion Live

In fact, a new Vital Signs report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, suggests that "possible Zika virus infections" have impacted some 44 states across the country. However, Dr. Likos stressed the importance of using mosquito repellent and eliminating areas of standing water (where mosquitos like to breed) in and around the home. "However, from our modeling, while we don't expect large outbreaks in the US [in 2017], we do see the potential for local outbreaks in Gulf region."Although large-scale outbreaks such as those seen in Brazil and Puerto Rico remain unlikely, Zika still poses a significant public health threat in much of the United States. ARTICLEPerhaps William Shakespeare's phrase, "Beware the Ides of March," should be re-written this year to be, "Avoid the mosquitoes of May."That was the primary advice of public health experts from the Florida Department of Health, the University of Florida (UFL), and the University of Miami (UMiami) during the first major Zika virus "town hall" of 2017 on March 30, 2017 in Gainesville, Florida, which was also broadcasted nationally via UFL's web site. Dean was joined on the panel by Anna M. Likos, MD, MPH, state epidemiologist and interim deputy secretary for health at the Florida DOH; Adriane Gelpi, PhD, MPH, assistant professor of public health sciences at UMiami Miller School of Medicine; and Kartik Cherabuddi, MD, assistant professor of medicine in department of infectious diseases and global health at UFL College of Medicine.




The U.S. government says it will move forward with wider tests of its Zika Vaccine after the results from a safety study initiated last summer were promising. A healthy patient receives an investigational DNA vaccine developed by government researchers via a needle-free injection. The vaccine, called a DNA vaccine, uses genes from the virus to create an immune response. Vaccine Push Companies are developing novel DNA vaccines to protect against a range of infections and to treat cancer. So far, however, no DNA vaccine has reached the market.


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