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Gates Foundation head of global health talks WHO, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
The spread of Zika across the Americas, on the heels of the devastation caused by the Ebola virus in West Africa in 2015, has many wondering how global health institutions are adapting to combat pandemics.
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The Race for a Zika Vaccine
The Zika virus thrives in tropical climates. But it is also growing in this cold-weather city — up a flight of stairs, past a flier for lunchtime yoga and behind a locked door. That is where scientists working in a lab for Takeda, the Japanese drug company, inspect and test vials of the virus.
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West Africa to target human and animal health together to fight Ebola and Zika
West African leaders have agreed a new approach to infectious diseases in an attempt to avert any repetition of the disastrous Ebola outbreak. Human, animal and environmental health will all be considered together, and countries in the region will work collaboratively to catch outbreaks of diseases including avian flu, Zika and Ebola in their early stages.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Are Altered Mosquitoes a Public Health Project, or a Business?
The fight against dengue and Zika in Latin America is turning into a contest between mosquito-altering technologies, and between profits and public health. Nonprofits and corporations are in a race to fight dengue and Zika.
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Sanofi partners with Brazil to accelerate Zika vaccine work
Sanofi has struck a collaboration deal with a leading Brazilian research institute to speed development of a Zika vaccine, consolidating the French drugmaker's position in the race to defeat the mosquito-borne virus.
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Zika Vaccine Race Spurred By Crisis and Profit Potential
The race to find protection against the Zika virus is fueled by something often missing from tropical disease research: the potential for big profit.
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Quest Diagnostics Launches Zika Antibody Test Created by CDC
Quest Diagnostics announced a new antibody test service — based on the Zika immunoglobulin M antibody capture enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay developed by the CDC — is available for the detection of infection associated with Zika virus, according to a news release.
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OraSure gets Zika funding
OraSure Technologies will get federal funding to develop a Zika test despite Congress' failure to allocate money to fight the mosquito-borne disease. The south Bethlehem diagnostics company announced Tuesday it had been awarded a contract for up to $16.6 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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