{"id":6107,"date":"2016-03-31T20:27:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T20:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/03\/31\/fda-approves-experimental-zika-screening-for-blood-donations\/"},"modified":"2016-03-31T20:27:13","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T20:27:13","slug":"fda-approves-experimental-zika-screening-for-blood-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/fda-approves-experimental-zika-screening-for-blood-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA Approves Experimental Zika Screening For Blood Donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, the FDA approved an experimental test that screens blood donations for the Zika virus. It&#8217;s a response to a blood donation shortage in Puerto Rico, where local donations were halted out of fear of spreading the virus.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/31\/472577707\/fda-approves-experimental-zika-screening-for-blood-donations?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=healthcare\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"FDA Approves Experimental Zika Screening For Blood Donations\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/03\/31\/472577707\/fda-approves-experimental-zika-screening-for-blood-donations?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=healthcare<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, the FDA approved an experimental test that screens blood donations for the Zika virus. It&#8217;s a response to a blood donation shortage in Puerto Rico, where local donations were halted out of fear of spreading the virus.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}