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Race to develop Zika virus vaccine and tests

Suspected links between the Zika virus and two neurological disorders, microcephaly in babies and Guillain-Barre syndrome, should be confirmed within weeks, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

Sat, 13 Feb, 2016

Ebola vaccine plans to be speeded up for 2015

The World Health Organisation yesterday set out plans for speeding up development and deployment of experimental ebola vaccines, saying hundreds of thousands of doses should be ready for use in West Africa by the middle of 2015.

Sat, 25 Oct, 2014

3,000 dead from ebola as vaccines set to start

The World Health Organisation said it expects to begin small-scale use of two experimental ebola vaccines in West Africa early next year and in the meantime, transfusions of survivors’ blood may offer the best hope of treatment.

Sat, 27 Sep, 2014

Swine flu virus is unstoppable, warns WHO

SAYING the new H1N1 virus is “unstoppable”, the World Health Organisation (WHO) gave drugmakers a full go-ahead to manufacture vaccines against the pandemic influenza strain yesterday and said healthcare workers should be the first to get one.

Wed, 15 Jul, 2009