{"id":3917,"date":"2016-08-12T08:42:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T12:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3917"},"modified":"2016-08-12T08:42:46","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T12:42:46","slug":"researchers-identify-a-key-weapon-of-zika-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3917","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Identify A Key Weapon of Zika Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Southern California discovered a key weapon used by the Zika virus to ravage the brains of infected fetuses: proteins.<\/p>\n<p>In an article published Thursday in the journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-stem-cell\/fulltext\/S1934-5909(16)30214-4\" target=\"_blank\">Cell Stem Cell<\/a>, researchers identified two proteins in Zika potentially responsible for causing microcephaly. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/researchers-identify-a-zika-virus-key-weapon\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=32853072&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-89ITDBnvv98xpBVctH_07zsTERo8YJZ4uIB1Q3HyzkvZQKw21CcJR9foWmGK9TC5K7z_s8ICsG-FpOdpFJrcgKqj4uNQ&amp;_hsmi=32853072\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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