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Zika virus: How worried do you need to be about the mosquito-borne disease as cases rise in India?

Zika virus, primarily transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes, shares its vector with dengue and chikunguny…

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India is dealing with its largest ever outbreak of the Zika virus

In late 2014, the Ebola virus, which plagued West Africa for the better part of the year’s sec…

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It's official: Zika is a cause of birth defects including microcephaly

This conclusion is big for understanding the gravity of Zika. Before now, researchers have only bee…

Lydia Ramsey   


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12 images of raising a child with microcephaly in the wake of the Zika virus

Cases of microcephaly - a neurological disorder that may be linked to the untreatable Zika virus - …

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No, a Monsanto-linked pesticide is not to blame for more microcephaly birth defects

Andrew Batholomaeus, a consultant toxicologist at Australia's University of Canberra and the Univer…

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New links between Zika virus and vision threatening eye abnormalities found

An epidemic of Zika virus has been happening in Brazil since April 2015. Six months after the onset…

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Everything you need to know about Zika-the deadliest virus around

While we are still safe, precaution is always better than cure. Be well prepared before it strike…

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Scientists just got more evidence linking Zika to microcephaly in the first trimester of pregnancy

States in Brazil that had locally-transmitted Zika had 2.8 cases of microcephaly per 10,000 live bi…

Lydia Ramsey   


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Zika virus: Kerala health department urges people to be vigilant

The department said that symptoms such as fever, headache, body pain, joint pain, and red eyes s…

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When my son was born with major brain damage, I was stunned to learn this happened because of a common virus

The author shares that when her son was 1 week old, doctors discovered that he had a rare condition…

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The most detailed image of the Zika virus ever captured might reveal a way to fight the birth-defect causing disease

"With the higher resolution, it is now possible to efficiently design vaccines and engineer anti-vi…

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Zika can replicate in unborn babies' brains for months - which could be why the disease is so devastating

"We don't know how long the virus can persist, but its persistence could have implications for babi…

Lydia Ramsey   


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How the coronavirus compares to SARS, swine flu, Zika, and other epidemics

However, both of those illnesses were far more contained than COVID-19, the disease caused by the n…

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A simple explanation of the disturbing birth defect that may be linked with Zika virus

According to the CDC, Zika usually only remains in the blood of an infected person for a few days t…

Tanya Lewis   


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Here's the strongest evidence yet about the link between Zika virus and a disturbing birth defect

In October 2015, a healthy 25-year-old pregnant woman in Ljubljana, Slovenia who had been working i…

Tanya Lewis   


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Scientists just found another critical piece of evidence that links Zika to a disturbing birth defect

"This study cannot determine whether the Zika virus identified in these two cases was the cause of …

Lydia Ramsey,Reuters   


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Scientists just discovered a disturbing new defect associated with the untreatable Zika virus

It's Zika's connection to microcephaly that's particularly concerning. This connection has raised c…

Lydia Ramsey   


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We may be getting the Zika story all wrong

The biggest unknown still is whether Zika is actually causing the birth defect known as microcephal…

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14 heartbreaking images of the untreatable Zika virus, which is causing one of the biggest public health crises in Brazil's history

The Zika virus is transmitted through the Aedes aegypti mosquito, and the symptoms - which include …

Courtney Verrill   


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Zika may be even more damaging to infants' brains than we originally thought

One thing the study makes clear is that the effect the virus has on infants' brains is complex and …

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