A hantavirus vaccine is being developed by an international team of scientists at the University of Bath.
The University said that the new vaccine has been tested in both the laboratory and animal models, which had yielded excellent immune responses.
The research team, which includes experts in the United States and South Africa, say they are expecting to proceed to Phase 1 human clinical trials in the near future.
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Sky news reports: “Currently there is no effective vaccine against hantaviruses, leaving large populations in Southeast Asia, Africa and South America vulnerable to diseases that are originated and transmitted by rodents,” Professor Asel Sartbaeva said.
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“Our team has developed a new antigen against Hantaan disease, from the hantavirus group.”
While more work needs to be done to bring this vaccine to public, Sartbaeva said this is a “very promising development” of a completely new and needed vaccine.
The report also claimed that work had started on the vaccine two years ago.
“The reason why we chose to work on it is because there isn’t really an effective vaccine against these diseases,” Sartbaeva told chief presenter Mark Austin.
“Every year about 200,000 cases happen around the world, it’s a very debilitating disease which needs a vaccine for prevention and that’s why we chose to work on it.
“Everything is pointing to it being an effective vaccine.”
In order for it to be deployed in the future, Sartbaeva said it must go through clinical trials.
“We are currently working with the other three teams to get it to clinical stage and then obviously we will need to run the clinical trials in order to show that it is efficacious in humans and it is safe,” she added.
“Then only after that can it be deployed to the general public. So we’re talking somewhere between three to five years from now.”
The vaccine news comes as the UK Health Security Agency announced that a new suspected case of hantavirus for a British national has been reported.
They said that this case was s in addition to the two Britons they were already aware of.
