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Why a Zika vaccine is a long way off

  • Written by Robert Bednarczyk, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology, Emory University
imageA vial of the Zika Virus Investigational DNA Vaccine from the NIH.NIH Image Gallery/Flickr , CC BY-NC

Recent news articles have highlighted positive findings in experimental Zika virus pre-clinical vaccine studies in monkeys and described the start of two Zika virus vaccine trialsin humans.

These stories have spurred hopes that a Zika virus vaccine...

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