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Recent News Headlines : Zika

HEALTH OFFICIALS AND RESEARCHERS TESTED MOSQUITOES IN THE SALT LAKE CITY AREA AND DIDN'T FIND ANY ZIKA-INFECTED BUGS.

Utah man may have caught Zika from his dying father's tears, researchers say...
29th September, 2016 19

WITH EYE ON EXITS, CONGRESS AGREES TO KEEP U.S. GOVERNMENT RUNNING, HELP FLINT

The Flint measure, an amendment to a separate water projects bill, would authorize 170 million to help Flint and other cities with water emergencies...
29th September, 2016 0

DONALD TRUMP'S THREAT TO UNDO PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA'S DETENTE WITH CUBA UNLESS PRESIDENT RAUL CASTRO ABIDES BY TRUMP'S LIST OF DEMANDS IS PROVOKING WIDESP

President Barack Obama has heeded calls by Louisiana's governor and a congressional delegation and requested 2.6 billion to help Louisiana rebuild from last month's devastating floods...
22nd September, 2016 5

MIAMI'S WYNWOOD DISTRICT DECLARED FREE OF ZIKA VIRUS

Zika has been found to cause a severe birth defect in infants known as microcephaly...
20th September, 2016 114

MATERNAL DEATHS WORLDWIDE DROP BY HALF, YET SHOCKING DISPARITIES REMAIN

Study in Lancet shows a woman's lifetime chance of dying from childbirth is one in 36 in sub-Saharan Africa, compared to one in 4,900 in richer countries...
16th September, 2016 1561

REPUBLICANS ARE PROPOSING TO ALLOW ZIKA-FIGHTING MONEY FOR PLANNED PARENTHOOD-AFFILIATED CLINICS AS NEGOTIATORS TRY TO REACH A DEAL AND ADJOURN CONGRESS FO

GOP ranks in Congress look to drop Planned Parenthood ploy, fund Zika fight aides...
16th September, 2016 0

OBAMA HOPEFUL ON SPENDING, ZIKA FUNDS AFTER MEETING CONGRESS LEADERS

Shortly before the meeting with Obama, McConnell said congressional leaders were making progress on legislation on temporary spending and Zika...
13th September, 2016 286

SINCE THE SUMMERTIME IMPASSE, ZIKA HAS SPREAD EVEN MORE WIDELY, AND FRUSTRATION IS MOUNTING FROM LAWMAKERS REPRESENTING AFFECTED AREAS.

And 671 pregnant women in the states and Washington, D.C., have the virus, leading to the birth of 17 babies with microcephaly so far...
9th September, 2016 8

"THE POINT IS THE PRIORITIES: ZIKA, DEFENSE AND A CR THAT INVOLVES AS LITTLE AS POSSIBLE IN AS SHORT AN AMOUNT OF TIME," REPRESENTATIVE RYAN ZINKE TOLD REUTERS.

Congress has yet to approve full appropriations bills to fund the government in fiscal 2017, a senior Democratic congressional aide said...
9th September, 2016 236

AND ANOTHER STUDY SHOWED THAT ZIKA VIRUS CAN BE FOUND IN TEARS -- AT LEAST IN MICE.

Florida officials said Tuesday they have diagnosed seven more home-grown Zika cases in Florida, six of them linked to an outbreak in Miami Beach...
9th September, 2016 403

HE SAID THE THERMAL SCANNER AT THE BATAM PORT REGISTERED THE WOMAN'S TEMPERATURE AT 37 CELSIUS DEGREES UPON HER ARRIVAL FROM SINGAPORE, WHERE 275 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH ZIKA.

The woman has been treated at the Embung Fatimal Hospital in Batam since Sunday after a thermal scanner at the Batam port showed that she had a high temperature...
8th September, 2016 2

SHE WAS HELD IN CONTEMPT OF CONGRESS AFTER REFUSING TO TESTIFY TO A HOUSE COMMITTEE, AND EVENTUALLY RETIRED.

Ryan vows to keep U.S. running as GOP-led Congress reopens with Zika, Clinton, Iran in cross-hairs...
6th September, 2016 6

SEXUAL TRANSMISSION OF ZIKA HAD BEEN REPORTED IN 11 COUNTRIES BY 26 AUGUST, MAINLY THROUGH VAGINAL INTERCOURSE.

Pregnant women told to delay travel to florida over zika virus fears...
6th September, 2016 81

BESIDES AIRPORTS, SEVERAL PORTS IN BATAM, BINTAN AND KARIMUN, ALL IN RIAU ISLANDS HAVE ALSO INSTALLED SUCH SCANNERS.

Local health agencies told to anticipate spread of Zika...
5th September, 2016 3

SCIENTISTS SAY SINGAPORE ZIKA IS ASIAN STRAIN, CASES REACH 200

A week after Singapore reported its first case of locally transmitted Zika infection, local scientists say they have completed genetic sequencing of the virus...
4th September, 2016 0

IT'S OFFICIAL. ZIKA VIRUS FOUND IN FLORIDA MOSQUITOES

Zika outbreak It's official. Mosquitoes found to be carrying virus in Florida...
2nd September, 2016 2

WE ARE AGGRESSIVELY WORKING TO ELIMINATE ANY AND ALL POTENTIAL MOSQUITO BREEDING GROUNDS, MIAMI BEACH MAYOR PHILIP LEVINE SAID IN A STATEMENT.

Authorities in Florida said Thursday they have found the Zika virus in three groups of trapped mosquitoes in Miami Beach, the first time this has happened...
2nd September, 2016 0

FLORIDA FINDS ZIKA IN LOCAL MOSQUITOES, BROMELIADS BLAMED

These are probably the number one breeding area for mosquitoes, said Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez...
2nd September, 2016 0

WE ARE AGGRESSIVELY WORKING TO ELIMINATE ANY AND ALL POTENTIAL MOSQUITO BREEDING GROUNDS, MIAMI BEACH MAYOR PHILIP LEVINE SAID IN A STATEMENT.

Florida finds first local mosquitoes with Zika virus...
1st September, 2016 6

TO DATE, THERE ARE 43 CASES OF LOCALLY TRANSMITTED ZIKA IN FLORIDA.

That number pales in comparison with hard-hit Puerto Rico, which has over 13,000 cases of the virus, with more than a thousand of those pregnant women...
1st September, 2016 89

ZIKA SPREADS IN SINGAPORE AS U.S. FIRM TESTS VACCINE IN PUERTO RICO, VIRUS SEEN IN MOSQUITO EGGS

Zika is primarily transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, and also by sexual contact...
30th August, 2016 0

ZIKA FUNDING DELAY IN CONGRESS PUTS AMERICANS AT RISK, OBAMA SAYS

Obama Congress is putting Americans at risk with delay of Zika funding...
29th August, 2016 10

41 U.S. SERVICE MEMBERS HAVE CONTRACTED ZIKA, PENTAGON SAYS

In addition, seven dependents of military personnel have been infected, Pentagon spokesperson Maj...
29th August, 2016 18

FLORIDA REPORTED A NEW HOMEGROWN CASE OF ZIKA VIRUS WEDNESDAY, THIS ONE IN PALM BEACH COUNTY.

On Tuesday, a case was reported on Florida's Gulf coast. It's not a surprise that Florida has cases of Zika...
29th August, 2016 5

SINGAPORE - SINGAPORE HAS CONFIRMED 41 CASES OF LOCALLY TRANSMITTED ZIKA VIRUS, MOSTLY AMONG FOREIGN CONSTRUCTION WORKERS, AND SAID IT EXPECTED MORE CASES TO BE IDENTIFIED.

Singapore has confirmed 41 cases of locally transmitted Zika virus, mostly among foreign construction workers, and said it expected more cases to be identi...
29th August, 2016 0

ZIKA SPREADING ACROSS SINGAPORE WITH MORE THAN 40 CASES REPORTED

We expect to identity more positive cases, it said...
28th August, 2016 0

THE PROCEDURE DAUBS COMMUNITIES IN INSECTICIDE TO FUMIGATE HOMES AND PUBLIC SPACES THAT BREED AEDES AEGYPTI, THE MOSQUITO CARRYING YELLOW FEVER.

Thanks to population density, yellow fever outbreaks tend to explode when they reach urban areas...
27th August, 2016 0

WITH A MACABRE CATALOGUE OF BRAIN SCANS AND ULTRASOUND PICTURES, A NEW STUDY DETAILS THE DEVASTATION DONE TO 45 BRAZILIAN BABIES WHOSE MOTHERS WERE INFECTED WITH ZIKA DURING PREGNANCY.

It essentially provides a tour of the brain from bottom to top, Levine said...
24th August, 2016 0

A FIFTH NEW CASE WAS DIAGNOSED IN A PINELLAS COUNTY RESIDENT WHO HASN'T TRAVELED INTERNATIONALLY.

Scott spoke during a Zika round table in the Pinellas County city of Clearwater, near Tampa...
24th August, 2016 0

5 NEW CASES OF ZIKA REPORTED IN FLORIDA, INCLUDING 1 IN TAMPA BAY

A fifth new case was diagnosed in a Pinellas County resident who hasn't travelled internationally...
23rd August, 2016 0

Trending News Headlines : Zika

AS ZIKA VIRUS SPREADS, EL SALVADOR ASKS WOMEN NOT TO GET PREGNANT UNTIL 2018

Several Latin American countries are urging a pause in having babies...
23rd January, 2016 5701

ZIKA VIRUS INFECTION 'THROUGH SEX' REPORTED IN US

Zika infections are short, mild and pose a significant threat only in pregnancy...
3rd February, 2016 4389

AND DROUGHTS, LIKE THOSE THAT RECENTLY AFFLICTED PARTS OF BRAZIL, CAN CAUSE PEOPLE TO HOARD WATER IN CONTAINERS, PROVIDING ADDITIONAL MOSQUITO HABITATS.

Alarm Spreads in Brazil Over a Virus and a Surge in Malformed Infants...
30th December, 2015 4120

ZIKA IN FLORIDA FIRST LOCALLY TRANSMITTED CASES IN CONTINENTAL U.S.

None of those cases is a result of local mosquito transmission...
29th July, 2016 3386

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...
24th January, 2016 2721

WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION DECLARES ZIKA VIRUS PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY

Zika alone would never be a public health emergency of international concern, he said...
2nd February, 2016 2442

IGEL SAID HE AND THE OTHERS WHO SIGNED ONTO THE LETTER WILL CONTINUE RINGING THE BELL ABOUT PUBLIC HEALTH FEARS OF THE GAMES REMAINING IN BRAZIL.

One of the letter's co-authors, Lee Igel, took issue with Frieden's comments that there is no public health reason to delay the Games...
28th May, 2016 2333

THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION WHO HAS REJECTED A CALL TO MOVE OR POSTPONE THIS SUMMER'S RIO OLYMPIC GAMES OVER THE ZIKA OUTBREAK.

Zika crisis WHO rejects 'move Rio Olympics' call...
28th May, 2016 1646

TEXAS HEALTH OFFICIALS REPORTED THE FIRST CASE OF SEXUAL TRANSMISSION OF THE ZIKA VIRUS IN THE USA ON TUESDAY.

Texas reports first case in the USA of sexually transmitted Zika virus...
2nd February, 2016 1596

TEARS AND BEWILDERMENT IN BRAZILIAN CITY FACING ZIKA CRISIS

Now Brazilian officials are investigating thousands of them, and they contend that the mosquito-borne Zika virus is the cause...
30th January, 2016 1217

CDC REPORTS 279 PREGNANT WOMEN WITH ZIKA IN U.S.

More than 270 pregnant women in the U.S. are also infected with the Zika virus, and are worrying about whether their babies will suffer birth defects...
9th June, 2016 1084

FLORIDA MAY HAVE ITS FIRST ZIKA VIRUS OUTBREAK

Zika can be transmitted by mosquitoes and, less commonly, through sex...
29th July, 2016 1044

AT LEAST 13 COUNTRIES HAVE REPORTED CASES OF GUILLAIN-BARRE LINKED WITH OUTBREAKS OF ZIKA, ACCORDING TO THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, AND WHO BELIEVES THAT ZIKA LIKELY IS THE CAUSE.

In addition to autoimmune disease, some researchers also have reported patients with Zika infections developing encephalitis and myelitis - nerve disorders typically caused by direct infections in nerve cells...
12th April, 2016 979

BRAZIL ZIKA OUTBREAK 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...
21st January, 2016 934

MUCH OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD'S NATURAL HABITAT HAS BEEN SPOILED POLLUTION AND RAW SEWAGE MAR THE LAGOONS THAT SURROUND THE OLYMPIC PARK AND OLYMPIC VILLAGE.

The lagoon in front of Rio's Olympic Park is so filthy the fish are dying...
21st July, 2016 922

VENEZUELA FACES 'WORST-CASE SCENARIO' AS ZIKA OUTBREAK EXPANDS

But abortion is illegal in Venezuela in most cases...
16th February, 2016 840

EL SALVADOR ADVISES AGAINST PREGNANCY UNTIL 2018 IN ANSWER TO ZIKA FEARS

Microcephaly is a rare, incurable condition in which an infant's head is abnormally small...
25th January, 2016 749

RIO DE JANEIRO -- IN THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST MOSQUITOES, BRAZIL HAS DEPLOYED SOLDIERS TO DESTROY HABITATS WHERE THE INSECTS THRIVE.

Zika Warning Spotlights Latin Americas Fight Against Mosquito-Borne Diseases...
19th January, 2016 712

THE COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT HAS CONFIRMED THREE FATALITIES WITH GUILLAIN-BARRE, INCLUDING TWO OF THE TURBO PATIENTS, BLAMING THE DEATHS ON ZIKA.

Cruz's sister, Paula Molinares, 10, is being treated for Guillain-Barre in Monteria, a major city in Colombia...
22nd February, 2016 656

AN OUTBREAK OF FOUR MOSQUITO-TRANSMITTED CASES YESTERDAY PROMPTED PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND (PHE) TO ADVISE PREGNANT WOMEN TO CONSIDER POSTPONING NON-ESSENTIAL TRAVEL TO THE SOUTHERN US STATE.

Florida has now announced aggressive mosquito-control measures, although the evidence from South America, where the outbreak started, is that these have limited benefit...
31st July, 2016 560

LIKEWISE, IT IS UNCLEAR HOW EFFECTIVE THE ASIAN TIGER MOSQUITO MIGHT BECOME AT TRANSMITTING ZIKA OR DENGUE VIRUSES.

But temperatures are rising, and the mosquitoes have recently been detected in low numbers near Mexico City...
21st February, 2016 532

ZIKA VIRUS US SCIENTISTS SAY VACCINE '10 YEARS AWAY'

In this insectary we keep about 23 different strains of mosquitoes for all researchers within our campus and we have Aedis Egypti from 12 different countries, he said...
27th January, 2016 525

BUT MINISTRY OFFICIALS HAVE ISSUED WARNINGS TO WOMEN TO THINK CAREFULLY ABOUT GETTING PREGNANT AT THE MOMENT IN AREAS WHERE THERE ARE ZIKA FEVER CASES.

The Brazilian health ministry has confirmed a link between a mosquito-borne virus from Africa, Zika Fever, and a high incidence of birth defects...
29th November, 2015 506

SPAIN HAS CONFIRMED THAT A PREGNANT WOMAN HAS BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH THE ZIKA VIRUS

It said two more patients were in Catalonia, two in Castile and Leon, one in Murcia and one in the capital Madrid...
4th February, 2016 504

THE DISCOVERY OF ZIKA IN THE ASIAN TIGER MOSQUITO MEANS STATES AND COUNTIES IN THE INSECT'S RANGE NEED TO RETHINK THEIR CONTROL PLANS, HE SAID.

New discovery means more U.S. states will face a risk from Zika...
29th April, 2016 383

ZIKA PROMPTS URGENT DEBATE ABOUT ABORTION IN LATIN AMERICA

But Brazil's powerful antiabortion lobby includes many influential female doctors and academics...
8th February, 2016 369

ZIKA VIRUS RISK HIGHER THAN FIRST THOUGHT, SAY DOCTORS

Doctor Renato Sa is a senior obstetrician who works in both public and private hospitals in Rio de Janeiro...
2nd May, 2016 368

WARMER AND WETTER CONDITIONS FACILITATE TRANSMISSION OF MOSQUITO-BORNE DISEASES, WHICH MAY HAVE ADDED TO SPREAD, SAYS LEAD CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENTIST

Climate change may have helped spread Zika virus according to WHO scientists...
11th February, 2016 366

ZIKA VIRUS OUTBREAK WILL LIKELY SPREAD ACROSS AMERICAS, WHO SAYS

This will also help to control dengue and chikungunya, which are also transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes...
25th January, 2016 364

UNLIKE AEDES AEGYPTI, MOST MOSQUITOES COMMON TO NORTH AMERICA FEED AT NIGHT AND LIVE IN WOODED AREAS.

But health experts fear the typical approach will do little to eradicate the Aedes aegypti mosquito that carries Zika...
3rd February, 2016 348

Related News Headlines : Zika

LOUISIANA, LONG KNOWN TO BE A HAVEN FOR MOSQUITOES, IS CONSIDERED A STATE AT-RISK OF ZIKA TRANSMISSION.

'Nobody's looking' why US Zika outbreak could be bigger than we know...
18th August, 2016 24

PREGNANT WOMEN TOLD TO DELAY TRAVEL TO FLORIDA OVER ZIKA VIRUS FEARS

Public Health England updates travel advice after first cases of mosquito-borne disease are transmitted on US mainland...
30th July, 2016 149

WE CONTINUE TO RECOMMEND THAT EVERYONE IN AREAS WHERE AEDES AEGYPTI MOSQUITOES ARE PRESENT--AND ESPECIALLY PREGNANT WOMEN--TAKE STEPS TO AVOID MOSQUITO BITES, FRIEDEN SAID FRIDAY.

4 Zika Cases In Florida Likely to be 'Homegrown'...
29th July, 2016 16

THE ZIKA VIRUS IS A MOSQUITO-BORNE INFECTION WHICH WAS FIRST IDENTIFIED IN AFRICA IN 1947.

What is Zika, where did the virus come from and what happens if I catch it?...
12th July, 2016 28

HEALTH OFFICIALS IN U.S. GIRD FOR ZIKA BUT MOSQUITO TRAPS FEW, TESTING LABS SCANT

Florida and other states in the South where the Aedes aegypti mosquito is present also are taking steps to prepare...
30th June, 2016 0

BRAZIL MUST FULLY INTEGRATE ALL ITS ACTIONS AGAINST MOSQUITOES AND CONTROL ITS BORDERS.

In the decades before 1958, the driving force for the campaigns was yellow fever, also transmitted by the Aedes aegypti...
20th April, 2016 2

SPREAD OF ZIKA VIRUS APPEARS TO BE SLOWING IN PARTS OF LATIN AMERICA

According to Alighieri, the initial projections were based on the spread of other viruses, like chikungunya, that are transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito...
1st April, 2016 24

IN CANADA, HUNTER'S LAB WAS A NATURAL CONTENDER FOR STUDYING ZIKA IN MOSQUITOES.

The box is home to a colony of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which Hunter and her laboratory employees are prone to feeding with their own blood...
19th February, 2016 14

SOME EXPERTS AGREED IT MIGHT BE WORTH USING GENETICALLY MODIFIED MOSQUITOES GIVEN THE SPEED OF ZIKA'S SPREAD BUT WERE UNSURE OF THE EVENTUAL CONSEQUENCES.

WHO has recommended further field trials of genetically modified mosquitoes, where sterile male mosquitoes are released to mate with wild females...
16th February, 2016 3

EXPERTS DESCRIBE AEDES AEGYPTI AS AN ESPECIALLY WILY ADVERSARY.

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...
15th February, 2016 176

WE WERE ALWAYS VACCINATED AGAINST YELLOW FEVER BUT WE DON'T FEAR ANY MOSQUITO NOW.

The behaviour of the mosquitoes may actually protect people here...
14th February, 2016 198

MYSTERIOUS AND FAST-MOVING, ZIKA VIRUS HAS WORLD'S HEALTH LEADERS SCRAMBLING

People said that about Ebola, and that was trying to get a bigger sail on the boat...
14th February, 2016 57

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