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Zika Virus

A drone sprays insecticide near homes on the outskirts of Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. Brazil's health ministry launched a campaign to fight the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits dengue, zika and chikungunya, diseases that can generate

Brazil’s public health workers race to tackle dengue surge

Health & Medicine

Heavy rains and a lull in public health prevention programs during the pandemic have allowed the deadly mosquito-borne disease to flourish.

Genetically modified mosquiito

EPA approves field trials of genetically modified mosquito

Environment
Close-up of a mosquito Aedes aegypti feeding on blood

Zika is no longer a public health emergency, WHO says

Lifestyle
Three-month-old Jesus, photographed on Oct. 5 in Guarenas, Venezuela, was born with microcephaly

Zika’s million-dollar question: Where are the birth defects?

Health
Zika virus

US officials are rushing to develop a Zika vaccine by 2017

Health

How worried should Olympic visitors be about Zika?

Health

Zika transmission is down during Brazil’s winter, but US health officials say it’s still unsafe for pregnant women to visit.
Zika transmission is down during Brazil’s winter, but US health officials say it’s still unsafe for pregnant women to visit.

Brazil now has doubts that Zika alone causes birth defects

Health

Just when many Olympians are arriving — and others are canceling over Zika fears — Brazilian doctors are questioning the theory that the mosquito-borne virus caused an increase in microcephaly cases.

Health centers in New York are providing information about the Zika virus to New Yorkers traveling home to the Dominican Republic. People who've traveled to the DR represent more than half of the Zika cases in New York.

Dominicans in New York are planning summer visits home. That means Zika planning.

Health

New York health clinics are urging Dominicans in New Yorker who are going home for the summer to take precautions against the Zika virus.

Electron microscopy of Zika virus (orange) bound to cell membrane (brown) in neurosphere generated from human induced pluripotent stem cells. Photo by Credit: Rodrigo Madeiro

How much do we really know about the Zika virus?

Health

Do we know enough about Zika to begin giving out public health advice about pregnancy?

Therapist Rozely Fontoura holds Juan Pedro, a baby with microcephaly, in Recife, Brazil on March 26.

Zika is spreading. Birth defects aren’t — yet

Health

Colombia and Venezuela, proving grounds for the Zika crisis, so far show no signs of a microcephaly spike.