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India comes up with world’s first Zika vaccine candidate

By, New Delhi
Feb 04, 2016 03:04 PM IST

Within days of the US government and French pharma major Sanofi announcing they had launched an effort to develop a Zika vaccine, Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech said on Wednesday it had two variants ready for pre-clinical studies, one recombinant and the other inactivated.

Within days of the US government and French pharma major Sanofi announcing they had launched an effort to develop a Zika vaccine, Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech said on Wednesday it had two variants ready for pre-clinical studies, one recombinant and the other inactivated.

Three-month-old Daniel, who was born with microcephaly, undergoes physical therapy at the Altino Ventura foundation in Recife, Brazil.(AP)
Three-month-old Daniel, who was born with microcephaly, undergoes physical therapy at the Altino Ventura foundation in Recife, Brazil.(AP)

A recombinant vaccine involves DNA encoding that stimulates an immune response while an inactivated one consists of virus particles grown under controlled conditions and rendered non-infectious.

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