{"id":3030,"date":"2025-08-01T07:00:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2025-07-25T20:25:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T00:25:34","slug":"innovation-fighting-the-flu-with-gum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/innovation-fighting-the-flu-with-gum\/","title":{"rendered":"INNOVATION: Fighting the Flu&#8230; with Gum!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago, scientists developed a chewing gum that effectively traps SARS-CoV-2 \u2014 the cause of Covid-19 \u2014 in people\u2019s saliva. \u00a0Now they\u2019ve developed one that combats herpes and the flu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scientists Made Chewing Gum That Combats Herpes and the Flu<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/scientists-made-chewing-gum-that-combats-herpes-and-the-flu-2000592876\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/scientists-made-chewing-gum-that-combats-herpes-and-the-flu-2000592876<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781635864175\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago, scientists developed a chewing gum that effectively traps SARS-CoV-2 \u2014 the cause of Covid-19 \u2014 in people\u2019s saliva. \u00a0Now they\u2019ve developed one that combats herpes and the flu. Scientists Made Chewing Gum That Combats Herpes and the Flu https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/scientists-made-chewing-gum-that-combats-herpes-and-the-flu-2000592876 Related Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,55,41,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global","category-health","category-news","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3033,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions\/3033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}