In a briefing held yesterday afternoon in Lyon. Dr Nick Jackson from Sanofi Pasteur has informed journalists about what Sanofi's already done and plans to do over the next few months to protect children and adults. Dr Jackson is responding to some questions rised by your pan african online magazine ContinentPremier.Com.

As polio ends, new threats are on the horizon. Zika is an example of a threat that was difficult to foresee. Because it lives in animals other than humans, it can probably never be eradicated like polio but maybe it can be controlled by a vaccine. Sanofi Pasteur’s experience with dengue and yellow fever -- other disease transmitted by aedes aegyptes mosquitoes -- is being used in new research into a Zika vaccine.

El Hadji Gorgui Wade Ndoye.

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