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Zika, a virus made infamous nine years ago through countless South America travel advisories about its potential dangers, may actually do some good. A recent Nemours’ Children’s Health study on mice found that the virus has the potential to shrink tumours from a rare and deadly form of childhood cancer called neuroblastoma. Each year, neuroblastoma accounts for only 6% of childhood cancer diagnoses, but high-risk neuroblastoma causes 15% of childhood cancer deaths. Fewer than half of neuroblasto
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