{"id":3748,"date":"2016-07-29T10:34:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-29T14:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3748"},"modified":"2016-07-29T10:34:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T14:34:53","slug":"the-best-drug-to-fight-zika-may-already-be-approved-and-out-there-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3748","title":{"rendered":"The best drug to fight Zika may already be approved and out there, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Andrew Joseph for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p>Several teams of scientists are racing to develop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/06\/20\/zika-vaccine-inovio\/\" target=\"_blank\">a vaccine <\/a>for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/tag\/zika\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Zika virus<\/a>. But what if a drug that already exists could stop an infection in its tracks? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/07\/28\/zika-approved-drug-screen\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz--LqI54Y7Mepb5axyRZBMTSGaei5IV2UcwbCXpITR-oJpXNh7gEI8SRS9hDZ7bbR7gCanQGgUg2n3iVsTIN6kwX__-HiQ&amp;_hsmi=32258856\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Andrew Joseph for STAT) Several teams of scientists are racing to develop a vaccine for the Zika virus. But<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3749,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions\/3749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}