A clinical trial began here yesterday at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, where 75 participating healthy adults were vaccinated with a Zika virus vaccine that the institute's scientists developed earlier this year, Walter Reed officials announced today.
The Phase 1 trial will test the safety and immunogenicity -- the ability of the vaccine to trigger an immune response in the body -- of the purified, inactivated Zika virus vaccine called ZPIV. The vaccine is being tested at WRAIR's Clinical Trial Center in Silver Spring, Maryland.
