{"id":3824,"date":"2016-08-04T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T19:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3824"},"modified":"2016-08-04T15:30:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T19:30:15","slug":"absolutely-shameless-7-marketers-of-anti-zika-repellents-slapped-with-cease-and-desist-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3824","title":{"rendered":"Absolutely shameless\u2019: 7 marketers of anti-Zika repellents slapped with cease-and-desist letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rebecca Robbins for ST<em>A<\/em>T)<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"big-cap\">A<\/span>s the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/series\/zika-update\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Zika virus<\/a> spreads, wristbands and patches being touted as protection against the disease have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/06\/19\/zika-fears-drive-sales\/\" target=\"_blank\">flooding the market<\/a>.\u00a0Now, the New York attorney general\u2019s office is cracking down on the companies it\u00a0considers to be\u00a0the worst offenders. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/08\/03\/zika-products-companies-claims-mosquitoes\/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9YHzAGdJROxzISnW210gHuEO4LNHy2IOyL_AybViVT9CDtK8xaBxpHvYnv-kl3LhHe_ycYrL0D2dc8q2H45OZqV8Zejg&amp;_hsmi=32492229\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading here&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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 Rebecca Robbins for STAT) As the Zika virus spreads, wristbands and patches being touted as protection against the disease<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824","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=3824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3825,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3824\/revisions\/3825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}