{"id":762681,"date":"2023-08-09T13:06:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T17:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=762681"},"modified":"2023-08-09T13:06:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T17:06:10","slug":"treatments-for-poxviruses-including-those-causing-mpox-and-smallpox-may-already-exist-in-licensed-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=762681","title":{"rendered":"Treatments for poxviruses &#8212; including those causing mpox and smallpox &#8212; may already exist in licensed drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The drug tecovirimat is currently in use for the treatment of mpox &#8212; the disease caused by monkeypox virus &#8212; that spread worldwide in 2022. Tecovirimat is an anti-poxviral drug, and its use is driving the emergence of drug-resistant variants of the monkeypox virus. Scientists have identified how monkeypox virus exploits a cellular protein to evade host defenses, allowing it to replicate and spread better. Existing drugs &#8212; developed to treat other viral infections &#8212; also target this cellular protein. When tested against a range of poxviruses, including monkeypox, these drugs were found to have antiviral effects in all cases.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2023\/08\/230809130610.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Treatments for poxviruses &#8212; including those causing mpox and smallpox &#8212; may already exist in licensed drugs<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ScienceDaily&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drug tecovirimat is currently in use for the treatment of mpox &#8212; the disease caused by monkeypox virus &#8212; that spread worldwide in 2022. Tecovirimat is an anti-poxviral drug,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=762681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}