Zika virus -- El Salvador
Just last summer [2015], Zika seemed too trivial for anyone to bother developing countermeasures. The mosquito-borne virus was racing through countries in the Southern Hemisphere, but, at worst, it appeared to cause a mild fever and rash. No longer: on [1 Feb 2016], the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the "extraordinary" cluster of microcephaly and other neurological complications that have now been linked to Zika a public health emergency of international concern. And vaccine makers,
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