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Tuesday, August 16, 2011

US vaccine offers hope to treat Chikungunya
Kounteya Sinha, TNN Aug 15, 2011, 05.30am ISTTags:University of Wisconsin|University of Texas
NEW DELHI: The world could soon have an effective vaccine against Chikungunya — the viral disease characterized by high fever lasting between seven and 10 days and excruciatingly painful joints for over three months. India has been seeing explosive outbreaks of this mosquito-borne disease which came to the country in 2006 after a gap of 32 years.

Researchers from the University of Texas, Colorado, the University of Wisconsin, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the University of Alabama have successfully created a new experimental vaccine against the Chikungunya virus.

A single dose of the experimental vaccine protected lab mice from infection with the virus, according to a paper published online in the journal PLoS Pathogens. Currently, there is no treatment or vaccine for Chikungunya and it has to be tackled with paracetamol and fluids.
Posted by Sangeeta Narang at 4:23 AM

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