Zika virus is effective when used to treat a type of childhood cancer in mice

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Source: CDC/ Cynthia Goldsmith

Injecting neuroblastoma tumors with Zika virus shrank or eliminated those tumors in studies with mice, suggesting that the virus could someday serve as an effective cancer therapy, according to a new study.

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