The Zika emergency calls for urgent countermeasures. Recently, Barrows et al. (2016) and Xu et al. (2016) conducted in vitro anti-ZIKV screens to identify potential therapeutics. The off-label use of drugs that may protect against Zika virus-induced brain damage has, however, to be balanced with their risk during pregnancy.
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