Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne orthoflavivirus that can cause birth defects, including microcephaly, a condition in which head and brain size are significantly reduced at birth. The collective ...

Here’s a look at Zika virus, an illness spread through mosquito bites that can cause birth defects and other neurological defects. Zika virus is a flavivirus, part of the same family as yellow fever, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers identified two Zika virus strains that could safely be used to infect people in a vaccine trial.

Researchers are making recent discoveries concerning the Zika virus, which is sweeping Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, according to the Huffington Post. 1. Researchers to report ...

A swarm of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, infamous for spreading diseases like Zika, dengue, and yellow fever, has taken hold in ...

Events such as the World Cup could have facilitated the spread, scientists say. — -- It’s not just humans who can travel rapidly across the world. Viruses and disease-spreading insects and ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- The Zika virus may be on the verge of reaching the status of an international health emergency. The World Health Organization will hold an emergency meeting next week to decide on ...

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 ...

While identical twins often share a fate, fraternal twins typically don’t, a divergence that offers clues to researchers. But one case is confounding these expectations. By Pam Belluck and Tania ...