Scientists develop Nipah virus vaccine that may give life-saving protection in just three days

Daily Mail, March 14, 2022

University of Texas Medical Branch researchers have developed a vaccine that could protect against the deadly Nipah virus in just three days. All six monkeys given an experimental jab seven days before being exposed to a lethal dose of the disease survived. Two-thirds of primates given the shot three days in advance lived. Many other international news outlets carried a related story from the Indo-Asian News Service that cited Dr. Thomas W. Geisbert from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at UTMB. The experimental vaccine was found to be “safe, immunogenic and effective at protecting the monkeys from a high dose of Nipah virus given shortly after immunization,” Geisbert wrote in the study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Scientists develop Nipah virus vaccine that may give life-saving protection in just three days

Daily Mail, March 14, 2022

University of Texas Medical Branch researchers have developed a vaccine that could protect against the deadly Nipah virus in just three days. All six monkeys given an experimental jab seven days before being exposed to a lethal dose of the disease survived. Two-thirds of primates given the shot three days in advance lived. Many other international news outlets carried a related story from the Indo-Asian News Service that cited Dr. Thomas W. Geisbert from the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at UTMB. The experimental vaccine was found to be “safe, immunogenic and effective at protecting the monkeys from a high dose of Nipah virus given shortly after immunization,” Geisbert wrote in the study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.