{"id":16666,"date":"2016-07-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/actualites-et-publications\/world-wide-breakthrough-in-quebec-first-vaccine-agains-the-zika-virus\/"},"modified":"2016-07-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T04:00:00","slug":"world-wide-breakthrough-in-quebec-first-vaccine-agains-the-zika-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/news-and-publications\/world-wide-breakthrough-in-quebec-first-vaccine-agains-the-zika-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"World-wide breakthrough in Qu\u00e9bec &#8211; first vaccine agains the Zika virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span>Researchers from <span>Universit\u00e9 Laval&#8217;s Infectious Disease Research Centre (IDRC) have made a b<span class=\"b4\">reakthrough towards the development of a new vaccine against the Zika virus which will be tested for the first time in humans.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very proud to be part of the first international team in the world to complete all of the steps in the regulatory process and to be authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Health Canada to develop a Zika vaccine,\u201d said Gary Kobinger, doctor of microbiology, professor in Universit\u00e9 Laval\u2019s Faculty of Medicine, researcher with Centre de recherche du CHU, director of IDRC, and a global authority on vaccine research.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www2.ulaval.ca\/en\/about-us\/media-center\/press-releases\/details\/article\/canada-home-to-the-first-clinical-study-for-a-zika-vaccine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To read the press release from Universit\u00e9 Laval, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/2833786\/first-international-clinical-study-on-zika-virus-vaccine-set-for-quebec-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To read the article on Global news, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers from Universit\u00e9 Laval&#8217;s Infectious Disease Research Centre (IDRC) have made a breakthrough towards the development of a new vaccine against the Zika virus which will be tested for the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nouvelles"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}