The Zika virus might be scaring most of us, but it's exciting drug companies.
The World Health Organization reports that 15 pharmaceutical firms are engaged in a race to develop a vaccine to treat the mysterious illness that has left babies in Brazil disfigured and has pregnant women in Latin America and the United States worried.
A WHO official told the Wall Street Journal that it will be at least a year and a half before large-scale clinical trials can be underway. She was referring only to the two drugs that are considered as being in more advanced stages of development.
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