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Dengue vaccinations could increase incidence of Zika virus, research finds
Published on October 31, 2016 at 7:21 PM
Vaccinating against dengue fever could increase outbreaks of Zika, suggests new research out of York University and Xi'an Jiaotong University in China.
The research identifies a potentially serious public health concern. More than a third of the world's population lives in areas where dengue is endemic and cases of co-infection with Zika have already been reported.
Conducted at York University's Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics using mathematical modelling, the research was led by Biao Tang, an exchange PhD student from Xi'an Jiaotong University, in collaboration with York Professor Jianhong Wu and Tang's supervisor, Professor Yanni Xiao at Xi'an Jiaotong University. As dengue and Zika are both part of the Flaviviridae family transmitted through a common mosquito host, the researchers wanted to know how vaccinating for one would affect the incidence of the other...
Dengue vaccinations could increase incidence of Zika virus, research finds
Published on October 31, 2016 at 7:21 PM
Vaccinating against dengue fever could increase outbreaks of Zika, suggests new research out of York University and Xi'an Jiaotong University in China.
The research identifies a potentially serious public health concern. More than a third of the world's population lives in areas where dengue is endemic and cases of co-infection with Zika have already been reported.
Conducted at York University's Laboratory for Industrial and Applied Mathematics using mathematical modelling, the research was led by Biao Tang, an exchange PhD student from Xi'an Jiaotong University, in collaboration with York Professor Jianhong Wu and Tang's supervisor, Professor Yanni Xiao at Xi'an Jiaotong University. As dengue and Zika are both part of the Flaviviridae family transmitted through a common mosquito host, the researchers wanted to know how vaccinating for one would affect the incidence of the other...