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12 February, 2016, 15:37
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Large scale trials for Zika vaccines at least 18 months away: WHO

AFP
12 February, 2016, 15:37
Update: 12 February, 2016, 15:37
A biologist displays Aedes mosquito cells inoculated with virus Zika in the laboratory of Biology from University of Campinas (UNICAMP), in Campinas, Brazil, on 11 February, 2016. Photo: Reuters

Geneva: Large-scale trials for Zika virus vaccines are at least 18 months away, the World Health Organisation said Friday, noting that an estimated 15 companies and groups have begun work on a product.

‘In spite of this encouraging landscape, vaccines are at least 18 months away from large-scale trials,’ WHO’s deputy director for health systems and innovation Marie-Paule Kieny told journalists.

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