Scientists from China and France have jointly developed a vaccine against Zik fever, the director of the Pasteur Institute at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tang Hong, said, Xinhua News Agency.

"This means that after the development of vaccines in the US and France, the seventh in a row in the world and the first vaccine against the Zika virus in Asia entered the phase of preclinical research. The vaccine can become available for use in Africa as early as 2019, "he said..

At the end of January 2016, WHO declared the virus Zika a global threat.

WHO predicted that in 2016, a virus can catch up to 4 million people in South and North America. At the moment the cases of the disease are noted in all parts of the world. The main spreader of the virus is the mosquito Aedes aegypti.

In July, it became known that the French-Austrian company Valneva had created a trial version of the vaccine against the virus Zeka. The drug was developed on the basis of the previously created Valneva vaccine from Japanese encephalitis.