New Cleveland Clinic research shows how mosquito-transmitted viruses – like Zika, West Nile, Yellow Fever and dengue viruses – hijack host cells to promote their own replication and infection. Published in Cell Host and Microbe , a recent study from the laboratory of Michaela Gack, Ph.D ., Scientific Director of Cleveland Clinic's Florida Research & Innovation Center , opens the door to developing new therapeutics for flaviviruses, a class of viruses for which either no or very limited treatments currently exist.

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