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The Zika virus: a ?virgin soil? epidemic
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- BY PETER C. DOHERTY
- JANUARY 30TH 2016
With news that the Zika virus is ?spreading explosively? throughout the Americas, much of the medical community, including the World Health Organization, remains on high alert. Below, Peter C. Doherty, author ofPandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know, discusses the nature, characteristics, and scope of the Zika virus.
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The long-term prospect with Zika virus is that we will live reasonably comfortably with it, especially if there is a vaccine to protect women of reproductive age. The principal decision for responsible authorities, like National Governments in endemic areas and the WHO, is whether there is a case for fast-tracking, then funding, a vaccine to protect all young women.
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The long-term prospect with Zika virus is that we will live reasonably comfortably with it, especially if there is a vaccine to protect women of reproductive age. The principal decision for responsible authorities, like National Governments in endemic areas and the WHO, is whether there is a case for fast-tracking, then funding, a vaccine to protect all young women.
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- See more at: http://blog.oup.com/2016/01/zika-vir....RklxJZDw.dpuf