The first genome analysis of the Zika virus outbreak in Brazil, which has been potentially linked to the birth condition microcephaly, offers new information on how and when the virus might have entered the Americas.
Mar 24, 2016
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The Zika virus infects a type of neural stem cell that gives rise to the brain's cerebral cortex, Johns Hopkins and Florida State researchers report March 4 in Cell Stem Cell. On laboratory dishes, these stem cells were found ...
Mar 4, 2016
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As world leaders grapple with containing the Zika virus, the Ebola epidemic in West Africa provides valuable lessons for how to respond to infectious disease epidemics, according to a policy report published by researchers ...
Feb 18, 2016
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Zika virus has been detected in the amniotic fluid of two pregnant women whose foetuses had been diagnosed with microcephaly, according to a study published today in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The report suggests that ...
Feb 18, 2016
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A man in Britain who was infected with Zika while traveling to the Cook Islands showed evidence of the mosquito-borne virus in his semen for two months, health officials said Friday.
Feb 12, 2016
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Over the last 20 years, there has been a tenfold increase in reports of dengue—an infectious disease that spreads to humans through the bite of infected Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes.
May 6, 2024
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To study how Zika virus proteins hijack and disrupt host developmental pathways during infection and disease progression, Dr. Shinya Yamamoto, assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine and principal investigator at ...
Feb 28, 2024
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In 2015, an outbreak of Zika virus, driven by a heavy rain season and subsequent boom in the virus's host mosquito population, caused thousands of babies in Brazil to be born with severe birth defects. Zika virus is unique ...
Feb 6, 2024
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Analysis of occurrence and co-occurrence patterns shows the highest-risk clusters of chikungunya and Zika in Brazil spreading from the Northeast to the Center-West and coastal areas of São Paulo state and Rio de Janeiro ...
Jan 17, 2024
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In 2020, then a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin and principal investigator of Decode Zika, Letícia Marteleto was leading a team interviewing 4,000 women in Pernambuco, the Brazilian state hit hardest ...
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