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Zika

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Close-up of a mosquito Aedes aegypti feeding on blood
Lifestyle
Zika is no longer a public health emergency, WHO says
Three-month-old Jesus, photographed on Oct. 5 in Guarenas, Venezuela, was born with microcephaly
Health
Zika’s million-dollar question: Where are the birth defects?
#BankBlack, This Election’s “Baskets,” The Reporter With Zika
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Zika virus
Health
US officials are rushing to develop a Zika vaccine by 2017
A worker fogs the corridor
Health
Singapore is dealing with an outbreak of locally transmitted Zika infections
Franci Machado brings her four-year-old daughter to work every day because she can't afford childcare. She says if she died because she couldn't get chemotherapy to treat her cancer no one would take care of her two children.
Health
Women in Nicaragua fight for the right to get abortions that could save their lives
Treating Zika
Health
I’m an obstetrician treating women with Zika. This is what it’s like.
Health
How worried should Olympic visitors be about Zika?
Health
Brazil now has doubts that Zika alone causes birth defects
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.
Health
Dominicans in New York are planning summer visits home. That means Zika planning.
Christ the Redeemer state overlooking Rio
Health
The absurdly low chance of bringing Zika back home from Rio
Therapist Rozely Fontoura holds Juan Pedro, a baby with microcephaly, in Recife, Brazil on March 26.
Health
Zika is spreading. Birth defects aren’t — yet
Ianka Mikaelle Barbosa, 18, with Sophia, 18 days old, who was born with microcephaly, at her home in Campina Grande, Brazil.
Health
A new bill aims to make Brazil’s abortion law even tougher
A scientist displays Aedes aegypti mosquitoes inside the International Atomic Energy Agency's insect pest control laboratory, Austria.
Health
Zika’s advantage in Brazil’s cities? People aren’t scared of mosquitoes.
water barrels
Environment
‘Little Teresa’ helps São Paulo women fight drought and male domination — with rain barrels
doctors at Ipojuca
Health
A ‘tsunami of disease’ slams Brazil’s health system
Nadja Cristina Gomes Bezerra
Health
Brazil’s microcephaly outbreak captured in portraits
Germana Soares is shown holding her child next to a doctor holding a black and white striped card.
Health
‘We have a child with microcephaly, and we’re happy’
Elaine Marques, 29 (center left) smiles at Germana Soares, 24, at a group birthday party for babies born with microcephaly in Recife, Brazil.
Health
How Brazil’s favorite app is helping doctors and parents cope with microcephaly
Brazil Zika and Olympic budget comparison chart
Health
The budget for the Rio Olympics is 16 times higher than the budget to combat the Zika virus
Brazilian soldiers inspecting water container for Zika
Health
Improving water sources, sanitation facilities and poverty alleviation may not be the solution to Brazil’s Zika outbreak
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.
Health
We’re not sure if Zika is causing all those microcephaly cases. But there’s no evidence it’s pesticides.
Brazilian soldiers distribute educational flyers about the Zika virus in São Paulo, the country's largest city.
Environment
Zika is a window into a much bigger story in Brazil
A scientist displays Aedes aegypti mosquitoes inside the International Atomic Energy Agency's insect pest control laboratory, Austria.
Medicine
Quiz: How much do you actually know about the Zika virus?
A woman and child in costume dance during a street carnival at which health workers distributed kits with information about the Zika virus, on Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Health
As Brazil marks Carnival, women worry about Zika
Dr. Natalia Brin examines a 2-month-old with suspected microcephaly in Brazil.
Health
A new link between Zika and microcephaly is found in Brazil
The Hartley family. (Left to right) Gwen holding Claire (age 14); Cal (age 17); Scott holding Lola (age 9); and their two whippets, Romeo and Cash.
Health
These children with microcephaly are a source of inspiration
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.
Health
The sketchy numbers behind Brazil’s Zika crisis
A health worker stands in the Sambadrome as he sprays insecticide to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmit the Zika virus, in Rio de Janeiro. Inspectors are spraying the insecticide around the Sambadrome, the outdoor grounds where thousands of
Health
The Zika virus has Brazil fumigating the Sambadrome in advance of Carnival
A health worker fumigates the Altos del Cerro neighbourhood as part of preventive measures against the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases in Soyapango, El Salvador.
Health
This country doesn’t want women to get pregnant until 2018