{"id":4216,"date":"2016-09-07T10:57:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T14:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4216"},"modified":"2016-09-07T10:57:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T14:57:39","slug":"hhs-accelerates-development-of-mrna-based-zika-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=4216","title":{"rendered":"HHS accelerates development of mRNA-based Zika vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background: white; color: #444444; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 11.5pt;\">(Source \u2013 www.hhs.gov)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (<a id=\"anch_29\" href=\"http:\/\/www.phe.gov\/\">ASPR<\/a>) today announced an $8.2 million contract award to Moderna Therapeutics of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to help speed the development of a novel vaccine to prevent the spread of the Zika virus.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/about\/news\/2016\/09\/07\/hhs-accelerates-development-mrna-based-zika-vaccine.html\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading announcement 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source \u2013 www.hhs.gov)\u00a0 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\u2019 Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response<\/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-4216","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\/4216","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=4216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4217,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4216\/revisions\/4217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}