{"id":5042,"date":"2023-10-24T20:04:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T01:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=5042"},"modified":"2023-10-24T20:04:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T01:04:15","slug":"as-dengue-fever-fears-grow-in-u-s-first-prevention-pill-has-promising-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/10\/24\/as-dengue-fever-fears-grow-in-u-s-first-prevention-pill-has-promising-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"As Dengue Fever Fears Grow In U.S., First Prevention Pill Has Promising Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/roberthart\/2023\/10\/20\/as-dengue-fever-fears-grow-in-us-first-prevention-pill-has-promising-trial\/?sh=23401891410a\">Forbes<\/a> A pill to prevent dengue fever\u2014a viral infection also called \u201cbreakbone fever\u201d for the severe pain it can cause\u2014could be on the horizon,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jnj.com\/janssen-announces-promising-antiviral-activity-against-dengue-in-a-phase-2a-human-challenge-model\" target=\"_blank\">according<\/a>\u00a0to data presented by Johnson &amp; Johnson on Friday, promising news that could signal a future treatment against what experts warn is a pressing and growing health threat that could soon return to plague the United States. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An antiviral pill developed by pharma giant Johnson &amp; Johnson appeared to protect people against dengue when exposed to a virus that causes the disease, according to early data from the company\u2019s clinical trial presented at the American Society of Tropical Medicine &amp; Hygiene Annual Meeting in Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The trial involved healthy volunteers taking the drug\u2014called JNJ-1802\u2014or an inert placebo for 26 days and being injected on day five with a type of dengue virus, a type of study known as a challenge trial.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes A pill to prevent dengue fever\u2014a viral infection also called \u201cbreakbone fever\u201d for the severe pain it can cause\u2014could be on the horizon,\u00a0according\u00a0to data presented by Johnson &amp; Johnson on Friday, promising news that could signal a future treatment against what experts warn is a pressing and growing health threat that could soon return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":5043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dengue"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot-2023-10-24-at-21.03.12.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5044,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5042\/revisions\/5044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}