There's still a lot that we still need to figure out about Zika. It's a virus that's been around since 1947, but the strain associated with the most recent outbreak and the one before that in ...

Nearly a year since the Zika virus outbreak arrived in Miami, scientists say they've learned new details about how the mosquito-born virus emerged and spread throughout the Americas. Researchers ...

A study reveals that Africa's low rates of Zika virus outbreaks may be due to a surprising factor: the genetic makeup of local mosquito populations. Research by scientists at the High Meadows ...

In pregnant women, however, there is a much graver risk of complications from Zika virus infection. In 2015 in Brazil, an explosive epidemic of a condition known as microcephaly was correlated with ...

Does the Zika outbreak qualify? There is a good argument ... the public-health threat from the mosquitoes that carry the Zika virus? The EPA can grant pesticide emergency exemptions for unapproved ...

have reported a surge in cases of microcephaly - which causes babies to be born with abnormally small heads - since the Zika outbreak was declared in the region last year. The virus is spread ...