Researchers have found that a drug used to treat Hepatitis C may work effectively as a potential treatment for Zika-infected adults including pregnant women. The findings suggested that the repurposed drug effectively protected and rescued neural cells infected by the Zika virus and blocked transmission of the virus to mouse foetuses. There has been a lot of work done in the past year or so to address the Zika health threat said co-author of the study Alysson Muotri professor at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine departments of Pediatrics and Cellular. But there is also a great
