Doctor Anthony Fauci hopes to begin testing a DNA vaccine by September. Scientists at the institute helped create the vaccine for Ebola and they hope to be able to do the same for Zika focusing mainly on making it work for pregnant women because of the strongly suspected link between Zika and microcephaly. Doctor Fauci says he hope they will be able to begin testing in America very soon and that the Phase 1 trial will likely start around the end of the summer or the beginning of fall. "If the outbreak starts to wane, as happened in the advanced stages of the agency's Ebola vaccine trials, it will not be possible to conduct big enough studies to confirm how effective the vaccine is in at risk populations." - BBC news
I thought this was interesting because it is good that we are trying to fix the problem as quickly as possible.
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