As the Zika virus spreads from South America to the United States, epidemiologist and public health expert Christine Hockett says disease surveillance technology is key to protecting against it.

Zika virus was first identified in Uganda in 1947 in a Rhesus macaque monkey. Sporadic human infections were detected across Africa and Asia from the 1960s to the 1980s. Since 2007 outbreaks of Zika ...

Infants exposed to the Zika virus during pregnancy may face hidden developmental challenges, even if they appear healthy at birth. A recent study at the University of Wisconsin-Madison highlights the ...

Zika virus is spreading rapidly through the Americas leaving researchers scrambling to understand the very basics, including how to prevent, treat and diagnose the emerging mosquito-borne threat.

The Aedes mosquito can spread Zika virus in addition to dengue fever and chikungunya virus. The virus was first spotted in the Americas in 2014. Note: This post was updated on February 5. As more ...

Most people think of mosquitoes as a Southern problem – a swampy, humid, Georgia-in-August kind of problem. For years, that ...

Zika virus is mutating so fast in Brazilian patients that different serotypes of the pathogen could appear in the near future, as is already the case with dengue virus. This would hinder the ...

New travel recommendations from state health officials were released on Tuesday following the continued spread of the Zika virus. The Zika virus, a rare tropical disease that has spread in parts of ...

Implications of the Rapid Spread of Zika with a Focus on the Infectious Disease Diagnostics Market and Human Vaccines Market What can be expected as the Zika outbreak progresses? Which areas are going ...

A study by researchers from Inserm, the Paris Public Hospitals (Bichat Hospital, AP-HP), Aix-Marseille University, and the National Reference Centre for Arboviruses confirms that the ZIKA virus can be ...

Alert CDC Issues Interim Guidance on Congenital Zika Virus Infection US federal health officials have issued interim guidance for health providers on the evaluation, testing, and management of infants ...