Zika Virus Vaccine Hunt Begins Following 4,000 Brazilian Birth Defects

The pharma industry's (and the media's) interest in Ebola has begun to wane as more affected African countries secure disease-free status from the World Health Organization, but another tropical condition has started to capture headlines – Zika virus (ZIKV), a mosquito transferred disease reportedly responsible for approximately 4,000 child birth defects since Oct. 2015.

This time the focus is on Brazil, the location for the 2016 Olympic Games, where an outbreak of ZIKV is thought to be responsible for more than 3,893 cases of suspected microcephaly in newborns since Oct. last year