Encephalitic danger has already been following us for a long time, poisoning a carefree pleasure of seeing beauties of Siberia and far East’s forests. Over the last years encephalitic ticks have even coming up to the forests of the Moscow region.

Scientists of the Novosibirsk Institute of Bio-organic Chemistry are involved in resolving the issue. So far, vaccination actively used since the 1970s was the most efficient way to counteract the disease. Unfortunately, this measure is rather expensive and not too effective.

Scientists of the Institute has proposed another approach, and now they have been working on developing a new vaccination technology.

The idea of the latter is to obtain “purified” virus genes by gene engineering methods that will ensure achievement of complete success. The only disadvantage of the newly-proposed technology is a lack of knowledge of gene vaccine influence on a man’s organism and uncertainty about the time required to prove harmlessness of the method.

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