NIH and NIAID announced the first in-human trial for an experimental Zika virus vaccine candidate in an effort to fulfill the growing need of Zika virus vaccine development. World Mosquito Day is observed to honor sir Ronald Ross for his discovery on transmission of malaria parasite via mosquito in 1897. On the World Mosquito Day,2018; National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) launched a collaborative project for the clinical trial of Zika virus vaccine candidate referred to as rZIKV/D4Δ30-713.
The launch of such a trial was needed to address the various issues, that raised grave concerns considering zika virus infection. These issues include, Zika virus related comorbidities, demographics of infection and its chances of lethality. For the development of vaccine, researchers used recombinant chimeric virus which was supposed…
