Race for a Zika Vaccine
This article talks through the process three doctors went through to find two possible vaccines for Zika. Dr. Abbink, Dr. Larocca, and Dr. Barouch first began working together when Barouch discovered Zika outside of a textbook, after being in the field for over a decade. He originally thought it dengue fever, or west Nile virus because when Zika was so rare, “If you had come to the lab back then, there would have been no mosquito pictures, and no mention of Zika,” (Mukherjee…
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