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

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 study led by Nemours Children's Health researchers and published in Cancer Research Communications.

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