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Though the results were promising, more extensive field testing will be required, the researchers wrote. Nevertheless, it marks the first time any vaccine trial has shown 100% success in protecting subjects from the mosquito-borne tropical disease, which sickens more than 200 million a year and killed about 660,000 in 2010

He likened the new virus to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome that ravaged the world some years back, adding that vulnerable people, including the elderly, pregnant women, children, chronic lung infection patients, stroke patients and cancer victims are more susceptible to the Coronavirus disease