Tagged Zika

Exposure to the Zika virus in pregnancy can wreak havoc on babies, but diagnosing the infection before birth remains a challenge. Now, there's some good news: U.S. health officials say testing placental and...

Five per cent of women in the US territories who were infected with the Zika virus while pregnant had fetus or babies with defects, including microcephaly, government health data said on Friday. The report...

This year has seen the birth of the first three-person baby, a dangerous Zika epidemic and a huge injustice overturned by medical science. There were also breakthroughs in a range of deadly...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Florida Department of Health said on Friday that the Miami Beach area was no longer considered an active Zika transmission zone. The CDC said...

Federal scientists have launched another test in human volunteers of a Zika vaccine. This one uses a more traditional approach than an experiment that started in August. Federal officials are eager to...

Zika can be detected in fluid inside the eyelid and in the eye's outermost layer, a new study shows. Some people infected with Zika develop conjunctivitis, an eye infection common among children known as...

The federal government is basically out of money to fight the Zika virus, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday. Dr. Tom Frieden offered that assessment to a group of...

Zika infections in pregnant women have been shown to cause microcephaly - a severe birth defect in which the head and brain are undersized - as well as other brain abnormalities. The connection between...

Singapore has confirmed 41 cases of the Zika virus which were locally transmitted. Most of those infected were foreign construction workers, and all lived or worked within the same region of the country,...

Singapore confirmed 15 more cases of locally-transmitted infections with the Zika virus late on Monday, having announced 41 over the weekend, the Straits Times newspaper reported, citing the health...