Zika virus

After Zika and Hurricane Irma, Miami Beach Looks to Insure Tourism Tax Revenue. Resort taxes, which include taxes levied on hotel stays and restaurant tabs, make up more than ... Then Zika scared off visitors. By the time Hurricane Irma hit last September, hotels and other tourism-dependent businesses ...

[BOGOTA] 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 ...

With the threat of the Zika virus coming with mosquito season, Broward County will begin spraying larvicide in eight municipalities and unincorporated Broward on Monday. The spray attack on the Aedes aegypti mosquito will occur from Monday through May 11, 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., in Fort Lauderdale, ...

A Vanderbilt team took the next leap forward in using a little-known bacteria to stop the spread of deadly mosquito-borne viruses such as Zika and dengue. Wolbachia are bacteria that occur widely in insects and, once they do, inhibit certain pathogenic viruses the insects carry. The problem with using ...

Warmer weather signals the onset of vacations, destination weddings and—unfortunately—mosquitoes. Since the Zika virus emerged three years ago in the Americas, cases have declined, but many people wonder if they still need to consider the mosquito-borne disease when making travel plans.

Guidelines in place for protecting against the sexual transmission of Zika virus need to be re-evaluated, based on a new study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC currently recommends that men who have traveled to a Zika-active region either use condoms or abstain from ...

The funds will be used to purchase equipment such as handheld sprayers, backpack sprayers, truck-mounted sprayers, traps, and anti-mosquito materials including pellets, briquettes and liquids. The amount was less than similar grants awarded by the state in 2016 and 2017, when the Zika threat was at its ...

Zika, the mosquito-born virus that causes birth defects, is still an issue in 2018. Zika is prevalent in tropical climates, but some warm locations are safe to visit this year for those worried about the risk of Zika. Zika-free destinations can be found in parts of Africa and all over Europe, according to the CDC.

Scientists would have to rule out the possibility that children had been infected before birth — no easy task given that Zika infections can be mild and women don't always know they were infected. And testing for antibodies in the women or their children might not generate a clear answer, because tests ...

DISEASE X has been identified as a mystery pathogen by World Health Organisation (WHO) scientists, who believe it may have the potential to cause a deadly outbreak as bad as Zika or Ebola – or even worse. But how could Disease X cause a global epidemic? One expert explains how animals could be ...

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Microcephaly, meaning a small brain and head, is arguably the most well-known birth defect associated with Zika virus; this was seen in 5.8 per cent of cases in the study. The worst time to acquire Zika virus appeared to be during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, when 12.7 per cent of babies developed ...

HealthDay News — A total of 5168 noncongenital Zika virus disease cases were reported from US states and the District of Columbia in 2016, with 95% of cases identified in travelers returning from Zika virus-affected areas, according to research published in the US Centers for Disease Control and ...

The accessibility of aviation travel, coupled with globalization, has increased the transmission risk for various arboviruses, including Zika virus, Chikungunya virus and Dengue fever. It is important for NPs and PAs to distinguish among prospective arboviruses in clinical practice because of the potential for ...

People's willingness to use a Zika vaccine — when it's available — will be influenced by how they weigh the risks associated with the disease and the vaccine, but also by their misconceptions about other vaccines, a new study has found. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, U.S., examined ...

The study, published in the Journal of Public Health, found that people's erroneous beliefs about an association between the measles, mumps, and rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism were a predictor of people's lessened intention to get a Zika vaccine. The study also found that people's perceptions of the ...

In this July 26, 2016 file photo, a newborn baby with microcephaly rests at a maternity ward of the University Hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Researchers say the severe birth defect caused by Zika infection may not be apparent at birth but develop months afterward, further confirmation that the virus can ...

Zika was first discovered in Uganda in 1947, and spread quietly through Asia. An outbreak in French Polynesia in 2013-14 caused a noticeable upswing in microcephaly cases. A 2016 study concluded that Zika arrived in the Americas between May-December 2013, when air travel from Zika-infected ...

Lisdeth Arguello holds her 3-month-old grandson, Jesus, who was born with microcephaly, at their home in Guarenas, Venezuela, in October 2016. The Zika virus, which is linked to microcephaly, was originally identified in Uganda in 1947.

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Doctors across the Twin Cities keep hearing the same Good Question: Is the Zika virus still a concern for travelers? “It's falling off of people's radar but the virus is still there, it hasn't gone away,” says Dr. Jared Frandson, a family practice physician at the Fairview Uptown Clinic.

Many people infected with Zika will have no symptoms, but the disease poses a serious risk to pregnant women. It's connected to birth defects such as microcephaly, where babies are born with abnormally small heads and significantly hindered brain development. Here's a brief rundown about what causes Zika, and what ...

Scientists have begun work on a Zika vaccine to help protect pregnant woman. The virus has been linked to severe birth defects and was declared as a global medical emergency by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in 2016. The Universities of Liverpool and Manchester and Public Health England will ...

WASHINGTON — Members of a government ethics panel have renewed their criticisms of a controversial study in which volunteers are to be deliberately infected with the Zika virus. In an article published this month in the journal Science, panel members called for the establishment of ethics committees to ...

According to a statement issued by the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO), on February 2, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has removed the Bahamas from its list of “Areas with Risk of Zika.” According to the CDC'S website, the list identifies places where pregnant women should ...

More than one in 10 babies whose mothers were infected with the Zika virus in the first three months of pregnancy will go on to have birth defects, researchers have found. The latest study is a reminder of the toll of the virus, which swept through the Americas and parts of the Caribbean in 2015 and 2016.

Zika virus has largely disappeared from the Americas. No additional countries have reported active local transmission of Zika since late 2016, according to the Pan American Health Organization. Provisional data from the CDC show that in 2017, 424 cases of symptomatic Zika virus disease cases were reported in the United ...