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Rick Scott launches Zika vaccine research initiative

Rick Scott launches Zika vaccine research initiative

Rick Scott, lamenting federal inaction on the Zika virus, has earmarked $25 million in state money for vaccine research."I have traveled multiple times to Washington this year to meet with congressional leaders to tell them how urgent this need is.Yet, despite endless claims of support from those within both parties, nothing has been done," Scott said in a written statement.


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Florida governor to put $25M toward developing Zika vaccine

Florida governor to put $25M toward developing Zika vaccine

Florida Gov.Rick Scott, who has been highly critical of the federal response to the outbreak of the Zika virus, used his emergency powers Thursday to direct $25 million in state money toward helping to develop a vaccine.It marks the third time this year that Scott has ordered the state to spend money fighting Zika.


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DNA-based vaccine guards against Zika in monkey study

DNA-based vaccine guards against Zika in monkey study

THURSDAY, Sept. 22, 2016 -- An experimental DNA-based vaccine protected monkeys from infection with the birth defects-causing Zika virus , and it has proceeded to human safety trials, researchers report."The vaccine universally elicited antibodies from all primates, but for the animals that got a full dose of vaccine, 17 of 18 were protected from infection," said study co-author Ted Pierson.He is chief of the Viral Pathogenesis Section at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.