November 20, 2020 - The pre-eminent journal ‘Science’ published a report led by scientists from ZikaPLAN partner, the Institut Pasteur[1] entitled “Enhanced Zika virus susceptibility of globally invasive Aedes aegypti populations”. The paper provides new information about the emergence of ... Read more
October 2020 - Four years on from its launch in Recife, Brazil, the global initiative, ZikaPLAN, created in response to a Horizon 2020 funding call by the European Commission’s Directorate-General Research and Innovation to address the Zika virus outbreak and ... Read more
June 22, 2020 - The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and ARCTEC have announced the launch of an early version of their Global Vector Hub (GVH), GVH-Beta. Read more
January 9, 2020 - Scientists and technicians working on arbovirus projects in Senegal and West Africa are meeting for a training workshop organized by the Mérieux Foundation and Institut Pasteur of Dakar from January 6-10, 2020. Read more
October 30, 2019 - The Global Birth Defects Description and Coding (GBDDC) app has just been released today. This first of its kind app provides images and definitions of major externally visible birth defects with ICD codes, in addition to ... Read more
October 28, 2019 - The Universidad del Valle hosted the annual ZikaPLAN meeting October 21-22, convening over 60 consortium members in Cali, Colombia. Read more
Fabien Aubry et al. – Science, November 20, 2020
The findings in this report, an experimental comparison of wild populations of Ae. aegypti from different regions of the globe, provide an explanation to the lack of major Zika outbreaks in Africa until now. They also shed new light on the emergence of the virus and on the regional and continental differences in its public health impact.
Defining the spectrum of neurological diseases associated with Zika virus (ZIKV) infection, in both the central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS) of adults and children.
To protect pregnant women, novel, wash-in detergent formulations and long-lasting plastic technologies containing repellents for the treatment of clothing and other wearable repellent technologies are being developed using new microencapsulation techniques.
Identifying the major T-cell epitopes and cross reactive B-cell epitopes on ZIKV and assessing the role of flavivirus antibodies in protective and pathogenic immunity following ZIKV through antibody dependent enhancement (ADE).
ZikaPLAN has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 734584.