Modified Vaccinia Virus Ankara as a Viral Vector for Vaccine Candidates against Chikungunya Virus

• Samuel Wilson

There’s a must develop a extremely efficient vaccine in opposition to the rising chikungunya virus (CHIKV), a mosquito-borne Alphavirus that causes extreme illness in people consisting of acute febrile sickness, adopted by persistent debilitating polyarthralgia and polyarthritis. On this assessment, we offer a short historical past of the event of the primary poxvirus vaccines that led to…