French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi announced today that it had begun research and development into a vaccine against the mosquito-borne Zika virus, blamed for causing a surge in brain-damaged babies.
The company said the success of its Sanofi Pasteur vaccines division in developing a vaccine against dengue fever could be “rapidly leveraged” in the fight against Zika.
The announcement comes a day after the World Health Organization declared an international emergency over the Zika virus which it last week warned was “spreading explosively” in the Americas.
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