2023-07-31 19:00:00
On July 31, 2014 at North Carolina State University, two scientists announced the development of a vaccine against the chikungunya virus.
Chinkungunya is a disease caused by the alphavirus type virus of the same name.
The bacterium is transmitted to people through the bite of mosquitoes.
Its form of spread is similar to dengue and causes an illness with an acute febrile phase.
This lasts from two to five days and is usually followed by a period of pain in the joints of the extremities.
The best way to prevent it is general mosquito control, as well as avoiding bites from already infected mosquitoes.
The disease can appear only once.
Then antibodies are developed that will be responsible for protecting sick people, so immunity would be for life.
The virus was first detected in Tanzania in 1952.
It was described by the epidemiologist Marion Robinson in 1955, together with a team of collaborators.
Between 2013 and 2014, there was an epidemic of the virus throughout the Americas.
It broke out in December 2013, when France confirmed two cases on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin.
In 2015, the Pan American Health Organization reported that there were more than one million suspected cases, 25,000 confirmed cases, and 181 fatalities.
In 2014, North Carolina State University reported that a vaccine to combat the virus began to be developed there.
The work was done by a group of scientists together with a biotechnology company.
This impulse was given because in that summer several states of the North American country had been affected.
In June of this year, the French pharmaceutical company Valneva reported an important advance in its manufacture.
He indicated that the phase three trial gave positive results.
However, for the moment the vaccine for this disease is still under development.
On July 31, 2014 at North Carolina State University, two scientists announced the development of a vaccine against the chikungunya virus.
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