A new map shows mosquitoes that can carry the Zika virus are found in 40 states and Washington, D.C.. Public health officials are bracing for local outbreaks of the Zika virus in the continental U ...

Earlier this week, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finally unequivocally confirmed that the Zika virus causes microcephaly in infants – confirming what most scientists had long ...

There have been more than two dozen Zika cases confirmed in the U.S. since 2007. The first one, in Alaska, traces back to a medical volunteer who had worked in Yap, Micronesia, during an outbreak ...

Though Zika was first discovered in 1947 (in the Zika forest in Uganda), it hasn’t bothered humans much in all these years. “There have only been about 14 or 15 cases documented until 2007 ...

The Zika Virus 14:05. ... is key with all infectious diseases. Back in the 1980s, when HIV emerged, he started keeping a map to track the ... If there were a big outbreak, we have medical ...

Florida has a Zika Virus Information Hotline managed by the Department of Health that can be reached at 1-855-622-6735. View more from Health Care This story was originally published March 18 ...

Zika is a virus that is mainly spread by the bite of an infected mosquito. Zika infection in pregnant women can cause birth defects, and research suggests that the virus may be linked to Guillain ...

Google is throwing its weight behind efforts to combat the Zika virus, with new tools, grant money, and some help from the Latin American Sesame Street. Skip to content KOLR - OzarksFirst.com ...

Zika, which was discovered incidentally in Uganda in 1947 in the course of mosquito and primate surveillance, 1 had until now remained an obscure virus confined to a narrow equatorial belt running ...

The Zika virus was circulating in Haiti in 2014, long before it became obvious that it was spreading fast in Brazil, a new study finds. ... Related: New Map Finds 2 Billion at Risk of Zika.