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WHO: possible Zika vaccines months away from broad trials
Marcos Espinal (left) Director, Communicable Diseases and Health Analysis, WHO/PAHO and Bruce Aylward (right) Assistant General Director for emergency of the World Health Organization, WHO, speak about the Information Session on Zika virus for WHO Member States, during a WHO Executive Board session, at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday
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Marcos Espinal (left) Director, Communicable Diseases and Health Analysis, WHO/PAHO and Bruce Aylward (right) Assistant General Director for emergency of the World Health Organization, WHO, speak about the Information Session on Zika virus for WHO Member States, during a WHO Executive Board session, at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP) (left) Director, Communicable Diseases and Health Analysis, WHO)
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span class="inline inline-center">Marcos Espinal (left) Director, Communicable Diseases and Health Analysis, WHO/PAHO and Bruce Aylward (right) Assistant General Director for emergency of the World Health Organization, WHO, speak about the Information Session on Zika virus for WHO Member States, during a WHO Executive Board session, at the World Health Organization (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)
The World Health Organization says possible Zika vaccines are at least 18 months away from large-scale trials.
WHO assistant director-general for health systems and innovation Marie-Paule Kieny says the U.N. health agency's response is "proceeding very quickly" and 15 companies or groups have been identified as possible participants in the hunt for vaccines.
She told reporters in Geneva Friday that WHO also believes the link between the mosquito-borne virus and abnormally small heads in some newborn children is "more and more probable."
The Zika outbreak is spreading rapidly across Latin America.
