A team of scientists has developed first animal model for testing drugs and vaccines to battle Zika virus. The University of Texas Medical Branch researchers' genetically mice have already yielded some clues about the virus' pathogenesis. Lead author Shannan Rossi said that there is a huge demand to screen antivirals that have been backlogged because we haven't had a good way to test them adding Without this model we were really stagnant in our efforts to find new treatments. You can look for efficacy in cell cultures but that tells you almost nothing about what's going to happen when you
