Inside the laboratory working on a vaccine for hantavirus

A laboratory in the UK working to develop a vaccine against hantavirus. (Anthony Brown / EnsiliTech via SWNS)

By Filipa Gaspar

Pictures show a laboratory in the UK working to develop a vaccine against hantavirus - suspected of killing three people on a cruise ship.

Inside the laboratory working on a vaccine for hantavirus

Scientists from the University of Bath working to develop a vaccine against hantavirus. (Anthony Brown / EnsiliTech via SWNS)
Inside the laboratory working on a vaccine for hantavirus

The team of scientists from the University of Bath have developed a new antigen against the Hantaan disease - a type of hantavirus. (Anthony Brown / EnsiliTech via SWNS)
Inside the laboratory working on a vaccine for hantavirus

Hantaviruses are a group of viruses carried by rodents such as mice and rats, transmitted by their droppings and urine. (Anthony Brown / EnsiliTech via SWNS)

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