Vaccine against Dengue Virus is 100 Percent Effective: Study

News Staff : Mar 24, 2016
Newsmax Health

"We hope to do this with [the] Zika virus. There's an urgent need for a Zika vaccine." -Professor Anna Durbin, Johns Hopkins University

(Baltimore, MD)—An experimental vaccine against dengue, the world's most common mosquito-borne virus, was 100 percent effective in early trials and could speed up the pace of a vaccine against Zika, researchers said [recently]. (Photo: DPC/via Newsmax)

Dengue—which is in the same family of flaviviruses as Zika—infects some 390 million people...

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