THE WAR ON MOSQUITOS: "The research team hopes to be able to administer the identified drugs to their study cohort, and measure how long the Zika virus is able to persist in semen samples thereafter."
::raises hand slowly:: Can someone research some of these mosquito re-purposed drugs? Is it weird that Bill Gates has been highly concerned with MALARIA too and mosquitoes generally?
According to Dr. Malone, testing a drug’s efficacy in a cohort of pregnant women would not only be time-consuming, but also expensive and would require a large number of participants. One reason that testing drugs and vaccine efficacy for use in pregnant women is so time-consuming is that researchers need to test the drug during pregnancy, and then foll…