{"id":9489,"date":"2016-08-01T07:25:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T07:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=9489"},"modified":"2016-08-01T07:25:51","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T07:25:51","slug":"uw-madison-a-world-leader-in-zika-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/uw-madison-a-world-leader-in-zika-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"UW- Madison a world leader in zika virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #222222;\"><strong>MADISON &#8211;<\/strong> It&#8217;s no accident that researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have taken a lead role addressing the Zika virus epidemic gripping the Americas. Many of them were already at work fighting viruses and mosquito-borne diseases in Central and South America.<\/span><br style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #222222;\">David O&#8217;Connor, a pathology professor, first learned of babies born with severe birth defects from his HIV research collaborators in Brazil. Jorge Osorio, professor of pathobiological sciences, and Matt Aliota, a research scientist, were first to identify Zika virus circulating in Colombia.<\/span><br style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #222222;\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #222222;\" \/><span style=\"font-weight: normal; color: #222222;\">Adding expertise in obstetrics, virology, radiology and public health from UW-Madison&#8217;s rare breadth of scientific expertise, the researchers are now working to screen mosquitoes for the ability to carry Zika virus and infect humans, and to use a harmless bacterium to block mosquito transmission of the virus. They are studying Zika infection in monkeys to describe the progression of infection and its dire consequences in pregnancy. And they&#8217;re sharing their findings with public health officials and scientists around the world to speed our path to the best vaccines, treatments and strategies to arrest Zika&#8217;s spread.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L4OQUWXpZ-Y\" width=\"619\" height=\"359\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adding expertise in obstetrics, virology, radiology and public health from UW-Madison&#8217;s rare breadth of scientific expertise, the researchers are now working to screen mosquitoes for the ability to carry Zika virus and infect humans, and to use a harmless bacterium to block mosquito transmission of the virus. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biology","category-research"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/download.jpg",274,184,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/download-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/download.jpg",274,184,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/download.jpg",274,184,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/download.jpg",274,184,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/download.jpg",274,184,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/download.jpg",274,184,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/download.jpg",274,184,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/download.jpg",274,184,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/download.jpg",274,184,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/download.jpg",274,184,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/download.jpg",274,184,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/download.jpg",274,184,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/download.jpg",95,65,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/download.jpg",274,184,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/download.jpg",96,64,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/download.jpg",150,101,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/biology\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Biology<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/category\/news\/research\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Research<\/a>","tag_info":"Research","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}