Nipah virus: First vaccine to treat devastating disease with 75% mortality rate goes to trial

Nipah virus: First vaccine to treat devastating disease with 75% mortality rate goes to trial

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The first participants in a trial received doses of a vaccine for the Nipah virus - a disease with a mortality rate of up to 75 per cent. Scientists have launched the first-in-human trial to test a vaccine to protect people against the Nipah virus. This zoonotic pathogen, which can be transmitted…

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