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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
Health & Medicine
Brazil’s public health workers race to tackle dengue surge
Genetically modified mosquiito
Environment
EPA approves field trials of genetically modified mosquito
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?
Zika virus
Health
US officials are rushing to develop a Zika vaccine by 2017
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.
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
Health
How much do we really know about the Zika virus?
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
Looking at male mosquitos in Tetiaroa.
Health
What you need to know about the Zika virus
A priest holds up a banner reading "Brazil alive! Without abortion" while standing near an altar where Pope Francis later celebrated mass.
Health
Thanks to Zika, now we know Latin America has the toughest abortion policies in the world
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
Margareth Capurro
Science
These mosquitoes could be a weapon against Zika
UM's Mario Stevenson (left) examines a new Zika virus detection test at his team's Miami lab.
Medicine
The race is on to come up with a good test for Zika
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
A municipal worker fumigates the Petare slum in Caracas to help control the spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus, February 3, 2016.
Health
There’s a chance Venezuela’s Zika outbreak is worse than Brazil’s
A health technician analyzes blood samples from patients bitten by mosquitoes at the National Institute of Health in Lima, Peru.
Health
3 essential facts about how the Zika virus spreads
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