Zika epidemic

The articles feature updates on the current STD epidemic in the United States, data on an investigational therapeutic vaccine for genital herpes, the emergence of drug-resistant gonorrhea, and cases of sexually transmitted Zika virus infection. After 3 decades, STD epidemic reaches 'decisive moment'.

France was the European country worst affected by the Zika epidemic in South and North America in 2015 and 2016, which caused the World Health Organisation to declare an international public health emergency. France reported 1,141 cases of Zika infection between June 2015 and March 2017 ...

... and Harvard report a new tool that engineers the CRISPR-based diagnostic SHERLOCK for rapid outbreak response. The updates to SHERLOCK, which was first unveiled in 2017, enable clinicians to quickly and cheaply diagnose patient samples and track epidemics such as Ebola and Zika with limited ...

"Our results suggest Zika has an even greater affinity with central nervous system tumor cells than with healthy neural stem cells [the virus's main targets in the .... According to Zatz, the fact that thousands of Brazilians were infected by Zika during the 2015 epidemic suggests the procedure is sufficiently safe.

According to Zatz, the fact that thousands of Brazilians were infected by Zika during the 2015 epidemic suggests the procedure is sufficiently safe. "Some 80% of the people infected have never displayed symptoms. Most of the other 20% have displayed mild symptoms far less aggressive than those of ...

MILLIONS of sterile mosquitoes will be released from drones over parts of Brazil to combat the Zika virus, after successful field tests were hailed as a "breakthrough" by the United Nations. Once freed, the sterilised, laboratory-bred male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes - which spread Zika, dengue and yellow ...

The scientists leading the trial say it is necessary to prevent a future epidemic. But Ms. Shah and other ... Natural Zika outbreaks are becoming too sporadic to test vaccines, so until the next large outbreak, a human-challenge study may be the only way for vaccine developers to proceed. “This ethics ...

MJ: We found that the number of preprints increased substantially between the Ebola and Zika epidemics. They were also being used to share new data and analyses and to make them available months before matched journal publications (a median of 150 days earlier!). However, we identified preprints ...

A predictive model has suggested that herd immunity from the first epidemic wave could provide up to a decade of protection against future epidemics (13). Other forecasts have warned that Zika could become sylvatic in parts of the Americas, including Brazil, which would pose a continual reintroduction ...