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April 7, 2017  |  By Ligia Murray In Home postings, News

The Scientists Trying to Keep Zika Out of Your Placenta

4 month old baby

A drug – being studied as a preventative measure against fetal infection – would contain glycosaminoglycans, which the virus would find so irresistible that it would turn up its nose at the sugars in human cell membranes.

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