Is there a hantavirus vaccine? Scientists race to develop one for new strain

euronews (in English)

Is there a hantavirus vaccine? Scientists race to develop one for new strain   A deadly hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship has raised fears over emerging viruses with no cure or vaccine. The UK government had already commissioned researchers to develop what could become the world’s first hantavirus vaccine  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2026/05/13/is-there-a-hantavirus-vaccine-scientists-race-to-develop-one-for-new-strain  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

Transcript

00:14It's a completely new antigen and it has now been tested in the laboratory and we have tested it in

00:22multiple animal models. It shows very good in immunogenicity against Hantan diseases and we're hoping that this will be a

00:32good antigen to use to produce a future Hantan virus vaccine.

00:46We don't know whether the antigen which we have developed will be useful

00:51against Andes at the moment. We're hoping that it will be but obviously until we have actually tested

00:57against the Andes virus we will not know.

01:08There isn't really a major cause for concern right now because it's still a very rare disease and it did

01:16happen on an isolated cruise ship obviously so there was already naturally an isolation there

01:24which meant that there shouldn't be further transmissions hopefully. It's not like coronavirus,

01:30it's not like pandemic we saw in 2020 because it's not a disease which transmits very easily.

01:40We're hoping that in addition to having an entourage of history we have been seeing

01:41E.G.A.

01:44E.G.A.

01:45E.G.A.

01:46E.G.A.

01:48E.G.A.

01:49E.G.A.

01:50E.G.A.

01:51E.G.A.

Category

Transcript

Comments

Recommended