{"id":9615,"date":"2025-11-14T20:06:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=9615"},"modified":"2025-11-14T20:06:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:06:54","slug":"merck-makes-big-antiviral-move-with-9b-deal-to-land-cidaras-late-stage-drug-for-flu-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=9615","title":{"rendered":"Merck Makes Big Antiviral Move With $9B Deal to Land Cidara\u2019s Late-Stage Drug for Flu Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2025\/11\/merck-cidara-therapeutics-acquisition-universal-influenza-flu-antiviral-cd388-mrk-cdtx\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Merck\u2019s Cidara Therapeutics acquisition brings a lead program with potential to become a first-in-class drug for preventing influenza infection. A Phase 3 study is already underway, timed to coincide with the start of the flu season in the Northern Hemisphere. <\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2025\/11\/merck-cidara-therapeutics-acquisition-universal-influenza-flu-antiviral-cd388-mrk-cdtx\/\">Merck Makes Big Antiviral Move With $9B Deal to Land Cidara\u2019s Late-Stage Drug for Flu Prevention<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merck\u2019s Cidara Therapeutics acquisition brings a lead program with potential to become a first-in-class drug for preventing influenza infection. A Phase 3 study is already underway, timed to coincide with the start of the flu season in the Northern Hemisphere. The post Merck Makes Big Antiviral Move With $9B Deal to Land Cidara\u2019s Late-Stage Drug&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}