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BOYLE HEIGHTS, LOS ANGELES -- The World Health Organization issued a new warning about the spread of the Zika virus, a disease carried by mosquitoes that can cause birth defects. Local health ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- The Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) confirmed a travel-related Zika case in which two people may have been exposed. In response to the mosquito-borne virus, DOH vector ...

Zika virus is a cause for concern. The first death from Zika virus in the contiguous United States has now been reported, and we have already seen the impacts of the illness on people in Central and ...

But now, a major step forward has been taken. Scientists at the University of São Paulo’s Medical School, at the Institute of ...

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ATLANTA -- MAP International, a Georgia-based global health nonprofit, is putting out the call for help to protect people from the Zika virus in Latin America. MAP International is in the process of ...

A new study from the University of Alabama at Birmingham reveals that an antibody originally designed to fight dengue virus may also block the spread of Zika virus in vulnerable areas of the body - ...

A simple-to-apply, needle-free vaccine patch is being developed to protect people from the potentially deadly mosquito-borne Zika virus. A simple-to-apply, needle-free vaccine patch is being developed ...

The case would be the first to show the virus can remain in the body for months. — -- The Zika virus has been found in one man's semen 93 days after he first reported symptoms, topping the ...

As winter melts away, the Aedes mosquito population rises with the temperature. When these mosquitoes puncture host skin to feed with their needle-like probosces, they often transmit pathogens like ...

The island of Oahu has at least one confirmed case of the mosquito-borne virus, which can also be transmitted from a pregnant woman to her fetus Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her ...