Dr. James Earnest, an assistant professor at UCF's Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, is leading two ...

Special meetings have already been held by the health authorities and officers have been given clear directions to mitigate ...

Guidelines in place for protecting against the sexual transmission of Zika virus need to be re-evaluated, based on a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC ...

In the blood of a patient infected with Zika, researchers have found key proteins that could help them create medicines and vaccines to fight the rapidly spreading virus. A study published Wednesday ...

Of the many mysteries that remain about the Zika virus and its attack on the Americas, perhaps the most puzzling one relates to the bizarre distribution of babies born with Zika-induced microcephaly.

Before SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, there was the Zika virus epidemic, lasting from 2015 to 2016. The Zika virus can cause serious birth defects and abnormalities. During the epidemic, one of the most ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Solange Ferreira bathes her son Jose Wesley Campos, who was born with the Zika-caused microcephaly birth defect, in a bucket at ...

On February 1, 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the recent association of Zika infection with clusters of microcephaly and other neurologic disorders constituted a Public Health ...

It’s been clear for a while now that pregnant women who become infected with the Zika virus are more likely to have babies with microcephaly, neural tube defects and other serious problems. Now ...

Birth defects caused by the Zika virus can occur at any point during pregnancy, but scientists now know that the dangers of contracting Zika are especially heightened during the first trimester. A new ...