INDCIAN FIRM DEVELOPS WORLD'S FRST ZIKA VIRUS

An Indian pharmaceutical firm claimed on Wednesday to have developed the world’s first vaccine against mosquito-borne Zika virus.

Biotech International Limited, the company, based in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh’s capital Hyderabad, said it has already filed for a patent for the Zika vaccine.

“On Zika, we are probably the first vaccine company in the world to file a vaccine candidate patent about nine months ago,” Dr. Krishna Ella, head of the pharma firm, told the media.