A mosquito-borne disease best known for causing severe cranial deformities in babies may someday become humanitys ally.
Zikahas been known since the 1940s, but its only recently that its received much attention.
As a result, scientists have been trying to create a vaccine against it.
A bloodsucking Aedes aegypti mosquito, one of the species that can spread Zika virus.Image: Tacio Philip Sansonovski (Shutterstock)
They also found the virus had a much harder time harming healthy cells.
Research into Zika as a cancer killer is still in the earliest stages of development.
But other brain cancer-killing viruses are already being tested in human trials, with preliminarypromising results.
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