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Zika

Zika virus

US officials are rushing to develop a Zika vaccine by 2017

Health

But the progress of vaccine trials depends on funding approval by Congress. Meanwhile, all the standing water after major floods in Louisiana could encourage Zika’s spread out of Florida.

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.

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Ianka Mikaelle Barbosa, 18, with Sophia, 18 days old, who was born with microcephaly, at her home in Campina Grande, Brazil.

A new bill aims to make Brazil’s abortion law even tougher

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A scientist displays Aedes aegypti mosquitoes inside the International Atomic Energy Agency's insect pest control laboratory, Austria.

Zika’s advantage in Brazil’s cities? People aren’t scared of mosquitoes.

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Germana Soares is shown holding her child next to a doctor holding a black and white striped card.

‘We have a child with microcephaly, and we’re happy’

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A baby born with microcephaly reacts to stimulus during an evaluation session with a physiotherapist at the Altino Ventura rehabilitation center in Recife, Brazil on January 28, 2016.

We’re not sure if Zika is causing all those microcephaly cases. But there’s no evidence it’s pesticides.

Health

Brazil’s surge in microcephaly cases has been widely blamed on the Zika virus. Now some claim it might be caused by pesticides, or even vaccines. We asked an NIH expert to sort out what we know from what we don’t.

Brazilian soldiers distribute educational flyers about the Zika virus in São Paulo, the country's largest city.

Zika is a window into a much bigger story in Brazil

Environment

It’s a story about mosquitoes, public health, water and women, which is why The World has sent its Across Womens’ Lives team to Brazil. They’re there to report on how Zika fits into the story of Brazilian women’s struggles to improve their lives in a time of rapid and often disturbing environmental change.

A scientist displays Aedes aegypti mosquitoes inside the International Atomic Energy Agency's insect pest control laboratory, Austria.

Quiz: How much do you actually know about the Zika virus?

Medicine

Lots has been reported about the Zika virus. How much do you know? Try answering these 5 questions.