Spurred on by climate change, international travel and international trade, disease-bearing insects are spreading to ever-wider parts of the world.
Mar 16, 2018
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(HealthDay)—A new study of pregnant women in the Caribbean further confirms that Zika virus causes birth defects, particularly if infection occurs early in pregnancy.
Mar 15, 2018
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People's willingness to use a Zika vaccine when it's available will be influenced by how they weigh the risks associated with the disease and the vaccine, but also by their misconceptions about other vaccines, a new study ...
Mar 15, 2018
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(HealthDay)—Zika infections are on the rise in parts of the United States where mosquitoes spread the virus, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Mar 8, 2018
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Diagnosis of Zika infection is complex. Molecular tests for exposure are only reliable in the first two to three weeks after infection while the virus is circulating in the bloodstream. Antibody tests are confounded by cross-reactivity ...
Mar 6, 2018
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The presence of yellow fever virus in urine and semen samples from an infected patient who survived was detected almost a month after infection, according to a study conducted by researchers at the University of São Paulo's ...
Mar 2, 2018
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Globally, Brazil has been the hardest hit by the current Zika outbreak, and the country reports almost all cases of Zika-associated malformations in newborns. DZIF scientists from the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin ...
Mar 2, 2018
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Researchers at New York University College of Dentistry (NYU Dentistry), in collaboration with Rheonix, Inc. (Ithaca, NY), are developing a novel test for Zika virus that uses saliva to identify diagnostic markers of the ...
Feb 22, 2018
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Zika virus, known for causing microcephaly in babies by attacking the cells that give rise to the fetus's cerebral cortex, could be an alternative for treatment of glioblastoma, the most common and aggressive malignant brain ...
Feb 22, 2018
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The antioxidant drug ebselen can prevent sexual transmission of Zika virus from male to female mice, according to new research published in PLOS Pathogens by Yogy Simanjuntak and colleagues at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. ...
Feb 15, 2018
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