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ALARM SPREADS IN BRAZIL OVER A VIRUS AND A SURGE IN MALFORMED INFANTS
Brazil waged war on the Aedes aegypti mosquito for decades during the 20th century before a vaccine was developed for yellow fever... READ MORE›
ZIKA VIRUS MAY BE LINKED TO SURGE IN RARE SYNDROME IN BRAZIL
The virus, called Zika, made its way to Brazil recently but is spreading rapidly around Latin America and the Caribbean... READ MORE›
WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION DECLARES ZIKA VIRUS PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY
Zika alone would never be a public health emergency of international concern, he said... READ MORE›
PARTNERSHIP AIMS TO BOLSTER LOCAL HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
We need good information, Dr. Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, said at an event to announce the new partnership... READ MORE›
MORE BABIES BORN WITH BIRTH DEFECTS
There has been a sharp rise in the number of cases of Zika in several other Latin American countries... READ MORE›
BRAZIL ENDS STATE OF EMERGENCY OVER ZIKA VIRUS
Brazil has declared an end to its public health emergency over the Zika virus, 18 months after a surge in cases drew headlines around the world... READ MORE›
ZIKA VIRUS LIKELY TO SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE AMERICAS, SAYS WHO
Evidence includes temporal association between Zika outbreaks and microcephaly outbreaks both in Brazil and French Polynesia, she said... READ MORE›
IT'S GOING TO TAKE MORE THAN 200 YEARS TO CLOSE THE WORKPLACE EQUALITY GAP. HERE'S WHY IT'S GETTING WORSE.
It may take women around the world more than two centuries to achieve workplace equality, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum... READ MORE›
AID GROUPS AIM TO PUT MENTAL HEALTH ON WORLD AGENDA
Good mental health care is scarce in many parts of the United States, but it is nonexistent in most of the world... READ MORE›
ZIKA VIRUS IS NO LONGER A GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY, UN HEALTH AGENCY SAYS
If anything, this has been escalated in importance by becoming activities that will be continued in the long-term in the World Health Organization, he said... READ MORE›
BRAZIL TO DEPLOY ARMY IN FIGHT AGAINST VIRUS
Brazil's government says it will deploy 220,000 soldiers in its fight against mosquitoes spreading the Zika virus... READ MORE›
SUICIDE RATE IS HIGHEST IN EUROPE
Almost 800,000 deaths by suicide occurred in 2015, according to World Health Statistics, a publication from the World Health Organization WHO ... READ MORE›
BRAZIL FINDS ZIKA VIRUS IN HUMAN URINE AND SALIVA BUT RISK IS UNCLEAR
The Brazilian researchers at Fiocruz said that their studies had detected the virus in an active form in human saliva and urine samples... READ MORE›
WHO DECLARES ZIKA VIRUS A GLOBAL HEALTH EMERGENCY
The World Health Organisation has declared the mosquito-borne Zika virus to be a global emergency... READ MORE›
BRAZIL PUSHES PUBLIC TO DO ITS PART IN FIGHTING ZIKA SPREAD
By 1958, the Pan-American Health Organization declared the Aedes aegypti vanquished in Brazil, and in the years that followed, in much of the continent... READ MORE›
LOCAL ZIKA OUTBREAKS IN UNITED STATES 'LIKELY'
The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which primarily transmits disease, is present in about 30 U.S. states... READ MORE›
PANELS ADVISE BOLSTERING WHO FOR CRISES LIKE EBOLA
Problems with outbreak preparedness reach far beyond the World Health Organization... READ MORE›
BRAZIL SAYS ZIKA VIRUS OUTBREAK WORSE THAN BELIEVED
Exclusive Brazil says Zika virus outbreak worse than believed... READ MORE›
WHO ZIKA NO LONGER A WORLD HEALTH EMERGENCY
The gambusia eat the larvae of the Aedes aegypti mosquito which is the one most responsible for the spread of the Zika Virus... READ MORE›
BRAZIL'S PRESIDENT DECLARES WAR ON MOSQUITOS TO SLOW SPREAD OF ZIKA VIRUS
The move comes as Brazil desperately looks to raise awareness of the virus and encourage people to combat the mosquito... READ MORE›
RIO OLYMPICS 'TO GO AHEAD' DESPITE VIRUS
Earlier, the World Health Organization WHO warned a disease linked to Zika posed a global public health emergency requiring a united response... READ MORE›
ZIKA VIRUS IS AN INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY, WHO DECLARES
Brazilian officials shared lab samples with foreign experts and brought in scientists from abroad, he said... READ MORE›
MOSQUITO-BORNE ZIKA VIRUS THREATENING NEWBORNS AND ADULTS IN BRAZIL
Mosquito-borne Zika virus threatening newborns, adults in Brazil... READ MORE›
DANISH AND SWISS TOURISTS DIAGNOSED WITH VIRUS
The Netherlands confirmed 10 cases and Britain five, all among people returning from South America... READ MORE›
JAPAN TO EMPHASIZE ITS HEALTH CARE AID AT NEXT G-7 SUMMIT
The Abe government is considering emphasizing measures to help spread basic health and medical care in developing countries as one of its foreign policy pr... READ MORE›
BRAZIL SAYS A THIRD ADULT HAS DIED OF ZIKA
The government estimates that Brazil may have as many as 1.5 million Zika infections... READ MORE›
ZIKA, MOSQUITOES OUTWIT RIO AS CARNIVAL, OLYMPICS LOOM
The virus is expected to continue spreading apace because the Aedes aegypti mosquito is notoriously adaptive... READ MORE›
ZIKA OUTBREAKS LIKELY IN US, SAYS TOP HEALTH OFFICIAL
The 350 US cases so far were infected abroad, says Dr Anthony Fauci, but the mosquito that carries the virus is present in about 30 US states... READ MORE›
BILLBOARDS SMELL LIKE HUMANS AND KILL MOSQUITOES
The billboard's promoters claim it targets the mosquito species thought to be spreading Zika, Aedes aegypti... READ MORE›