An experimental DNA-based vaccine protected monkeys from infection with the birth defects-causing Zika virus, and it has proceeded to human safety trials, researchers report.
Sep 22, 2016
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The Zika virus has struck fear throughout the Americas, but determining whether people have been infected can be difficult.
Sep 21, 2016
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Two mood-stabilizing drugs provide protection against a potentially dangerous virus implicated in birth defects as well as disease in people with compromised immune systems, Yale School of Medicine researchers have found.
Sep 21, 2016
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The swine flu vaccine, when administered to pregnant women, caused neither fetal injury nor infant death, writes Karolinska Institutet professor Johan F Ludvigsson an opinion piece in Tuesday's Dagens Nyheter in conjunction ...
Sep 21, 2016
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Health authorities Monday lifted a travel warning for the Miami neighborhood of Wynwood—site of the United States' first local Zika outbreak—after the governor declared no evidence of active transmission of the virus ...
Sep 19, 2016
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(HealthDay)—A rigorous new study of 91 Brazilian babies strongly supports the point that the mosquito-borne Zika virus can cause the devastating birth defect microcephaly.
Sep 16, 2016
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(HealthDay)—America's top public health agency could lift its Zika virus travel advisory for the Wynwood neighborhood of Miami as early as Monday, officials said Thursday afternoon.
Sep 16, 2016
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Zika can be detected in fluid inside the eyelid and in the eye's outermost layer, a new study shows.
Sep 16, 2016
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The world should prepare for a "global epidemic" of microcephaly, a condition which restricts head growth in foetuses, as the Zika virus takes root in new countries, researchers said Friday.
Sep 15, 2016
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The University of Florida announced Thursday that it has been awarded a U.S. grant of roughly $1.7 million to research the mosquito-borne Zika virus in Haiti.
Sep 15, 2016
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