Zika Virus News

• As Zika-Affected Babies Grow, Developmental Outcomes Vary At age 2 years and beyond, babies born with microcephaly after exposure to Zika virus in the womb often have more severe neurodevelopmental delays and slower growth rates than their peers, report researchers from Brazil.
  Reuters Health Information, September 15, 2021
• Case Reports Identify Guillain-Barré Variants After COVID Vaccine Report findings from India and the UK 'should prompt all physicians to be vigilant in recognizing Guillain-Barré syndrome in patients who have received the AstraZeneca vaccine,' investigators say.
  Medscape Medical News, July 01, 2021
• Dengue Infections Can Be Sharply Reduced With Wolbachia Bacteria A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine belies the extraordinary 77% protective efficacy reported for preventing dengue infections with Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.
  Medscape Medical News, June 14, 2021
• Dengue May Double the Risk of Symptomatic COVID-19 A study from Brazil suggests that symptomatic COVID-19 infections are more common in people who previously had dengue. Is there a connection?
  Medscape Medical News, May 24, 2021
• Ocular Abnormalities Not Likely in Newborns of SARS-CoV-2-infected Mothers Unlike pathogens such as cytomegalovirus and Zika, SARS-CoV-2 is not likely to cause ocular problems in newborns whose mothers were infected with the virus during pregnancy, a new case series suggests.
  Reuters Health Information, April 08, 2021
• Getting Sick for the Sake of Medical Research The first COVID-19 human challenge trial has begun in the UK. Here's what past trials have been like for participants.
  Undark, April 07, 2021
• Lab Leak: A Scientific Debate Mired in Politics — and Unresolved More than a year into the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, some scientists say the possibility of a lab leak never got a fair look.
  Undark, March 17, 2021
• How Wikipedia Fought COVID Misinformation Some illustrious medical publications were foiled by dubious data in the pandemic publishing flurry. How did the online encyclopedia avoid these pitfalls?
  Medscape Medical News, March 10, 2021
• Zika Vaccine Candidate Shows Promise in Phase 1 Trial A Zika virus vaccine candidate prompted antibody responses in 80% of individuals who received two doses in a phase 1 study.
  Medscape Medical News, February 19, 2021
• Neonates May Be Unprotected from SARS-CoV-2 Transmission No maternal viremia, placental infection, or vertical transmission of SARS-CoV-2 occurred during a biorepository study that included 64 women with SARS-CoV-2 infection.
  Medscape Medical News, January 05, 2021
• Underestimating the Coronavirus...Until It Was Too Late When Chinese officials revealed that their pneumonia outbreak was caused by another new coronavirus, Asian countries hit hard by SARS knew what they had to do. The US learned all the wrong lessons.
  Kaiser Health News, December 21, 2020
• The Vaccine Was Fast. Here's How to Make it Even Faster The most ambitious vaccine advancement in history is well underway. Scientists, however, say they have the capability to shave months off this timeline to save lives in pandemic times.
  Medscape Medical News, December 18, 2020
• COVID-19 Vaccine FAQ: Safety, Side Effects, Efficacy WebMD went to the experts for answers to a dozen frequently asked questions about the vaccine. Here's what you need to know.
  WebMD Health News, December 17, 2020
• What Is the Best Strategy to Deploy a Covid-19 Vaccine? Mathematicians are playing a key role in fighting the pandemic by modeling different scenarios for a vaccine rollout.
  Undark, November 19, 2020
• Is the Trump Administration Eroding Trust in the FDA? Experts worry that politically-motivated acts by the Trump administration will undermine COVID-19 therapies.
  Undark, October 16, 2020
• When Children's Covid-19 Symptoms Won't Go Away Many parents report that pediatricians, initially convinced the symptoms are caused by Covid-19, grow more skeptical as the weeks progress.
  Undark, September 02, 2020
• Beyond Microcephaly: Zika-Affected Children Near School Age Following up with those born to women infected with Zika while pregnant is now more important than ever, experts say.
  Medscape Medical News, August 31, 2020
• Disease-Ridden Mosquitoes Fly Free as Health Depts Focus on COVID Communities must wait until potentially deadly mosquito-borne illnesses such as the West Nile virus sicken humans to find out if the insects are carrying disease.
  Kaiser Health News, July 20, 2020
• How Viruses Evolve May Affect Course of COVID-19 Pandemic Pathogens that switch to a new host species have some adapting to do. How does that affect the course of a pandemic like COVID-19?
  Knowable Magazine, July 20, 2020
• CDC Revises COVID-19 Risks During Pregnancy as Research Lags Experts say a new CDC study on COVID-19 in pregnancy has startling data gaps that endanger pregnant women and babies.
  Undark, July 14, 2020