Zika Virus News

• India on Alert as Zika Virus Hits Tourism Hotspot of Jaipur India has sent experts to try to contain an outbreak of the zika virus in the popular tourist destination of Jaipur, capital of the northern state of Rajasthan, with a close watch on pregnant women.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2018
• U.S. Working to Halt Spread of Diseases From Venezuela The United States is working with governments across Latin America to help prevent the spread of diseases like diphtheria and measles from Venezuela as refugees flee the chaotic country, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said on Tuesday.
  Reuters Health Information, October 2018
• IDWeekNew Antibiotics, Emerging Disease Threats Ahead at IDWeek Five antibiotics in the pipeline for some of the most resistant bugs, one of which is a phage therapy, will be in the spotlight at the upcoming IDWeek meeting.
  Medscape Medical News, September 2018
• Infant Eye Trouble Similar With Confirmed and Suspected Antenatal Zika Exposure Babies with suspected and confirmed antenatal Zika virus exposure have similar ocular abnormalities, and even well-appearing infants may have Zika-related eye manifestations, report clinicians from Brazil.
  Reuters Health Information, September 2018
• Quick, Cheap Test Can Monitor Wolbachia, Identify Mosquito Species
  Reuters Health Information, August 2018
• Mosquito Threat Spurs New Ways to Tackle Old Pest Insect-borne illnesses are on the march, as the bugs that carry them are spreading out and getting harder to kill.
  WebMD Health News, August 2018
• Infectious Zika Virus Persist in Semen for More Than 30 Days
  Reuters Health Information, August 2018
• One in 7 Babies Exposed to Zika Have Health Problems, CDC Says The CDC issues updated guidance for couples planning to become pregnant after possible exposure to Zika virus.
  Medscape Medical News, August 2018
• Zika Virus Usually Causes Mild Illness in Children Zika virus infection is generally mild in infants, children and adolescents, according to a study of 351 patients in Puerto Rico.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2018
• Why the World Needs More Than One Ebola Vaccine In the life-and-death race to make the first effective vaccine against Ebola, one company - Merck - seems bound to win.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2018
• Acute Morbidity of Guillain-Barre Worse With Zika Infection Patients with Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) who have evidence of Zika virus (ZIKV) infection have higher acute morbidity than those with GBS but no signs of ZIKV, according to new research.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2018
• Peru Declares Alert Over Suspected Guillain-Barre Outbreak Peru has declared a national epidemiological alert to contain what appears to be an outbreak of the rare Guillain-Barre syndrome, which is associated with the Zika virus, the country's health ministry said on Wednesday.
  Reuters Health Information, May 2018
• Screening Blood Donations for Zika Has Low Yield, High Cost Finding eight positive blood donations in 15 months came at a cost of $5.3 million each. Editorialists say it's time to evaluate whether current screening should be continued, modified, or stopped.
  Medscape Medical News, May 2018
• CRISPR-Cas13-based Platform Detects Tiny Quantities of Zika Virus and Dengue Virus
  Reuters Health Information, May 2018
• Alert Mosquito and Tick Diseases a Large and Growing Threat in US Illnesses from mosquito, tick, and flea bites have tripled in the US over the past 13 years, and better ways to fight this growing public health threat are needed, federal health officials say.
  Medscape Medical News, May 2018
• 'Breakthrough' in Mosquito-Packed Drones to Combat Zika in Brazil Millions of sterile mosquitoes will be released from drones over parts of Brazil to combat the Zika virus, after successful field tests were hailed as a 'breakthrough' by the United Nations.
  Reuters Health Information, April 2018
• IM 2018Disaster Medicine in Eye of Storm at IM Meeting Lessons learned after deadly hurricanes will be shared at the upcoming Internal Medicine (IM) Meeting, along with updates on hypertension, medical marijuana, and wearables.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018
• Zika Infection Risk From Semen Low, Short-lived, Study Finds Most men infected with Zika virus had viral RNA in their semen for several weeks, but only 4% had potentially sexually transmissible virus; the high-risk period was the 30 days after symptom onset.
  Medscape Medical News, April 2018
• Zika Vaccine Strategy Could Eliminate Prenatal Infections A moderately to highly effective Zika-virus vaccine administered to 90% of women of reproductive age could virtually eliminate prenatal infections, researchers say.
  Reuters Health Information, April 2018
• Neurogenic Bladder a Consequence of Congenital Zika Syndrome Microcephaly Neurogenic bladder is among the central nervous system complications of congenital Zika syndrome microcephaly, researchers in Brazil say.
  Reuters Health Information, March 2018