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Confirmed Zika Infection Of Pregnant Women In The US,Linked To Birth Defects [VIDEO]
By Lori Brown | Apr 06, 2017 08:03 AM EDTHealth authorities warn that 1 in 10 pregnant women with Zika infection had fetus or baby with birth defects.
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Is It The End Of Zika? Virus Quietly Spreads To Southwest Africa As Angola Reports Two New Cases
By Angela Laguipo | Jan 17, 2017 08:56 AM ESTOne year after the mainland U.S. has reported its first Zika virus and still, it still lingers. Now, Angola in Africa reports two new cases.
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Zika Virus Alert: Texas Become Second State To Confirm Locally Transmitted Zika Infection
By Samantha Goodwin | Nov 30, 2016 09:16 AM ESTTexas confirmed a locally transmitted infection from the Zika virus, becoming the second state in the US to have mosquitoes that spread this infection.
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Zika Virus Updates: Mice Infertility Test, Brazil No Zika Wave In Summer, Endemic; Which Countries To Avoid? [VIDEO]
By yasmin reyes | Nov 09, 2016 10:00 AM ESTFor the last few days, Zika virus updates have seen valuable research on the effects of Zika on mice and the extent of the damage it wrought on developing fetal brain. Medical researchers are also suggesting is that Zika may become endemic in some regions particularly in the Americas.
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Zika Virus Linked To Blindness Among Newborns
By Jenn Loro | Feb 12, 2016 02:53 PM ESTA new study published in JAMA online links Zika virus to inherent vision loss among infected Brazilian newborns.
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Zika Fuels Abortion Debate In Latin America
By Jenn Loro | Feb 09, 2016 11:42 AM ESTAs Zika epidemic heightens in Latin America, debates over permitting abortions in cases of birth defects are mounting.
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Zika Virus Transmitted In Texas Through Sexual Intercourse
By Jenn Loro | Feb 04, 2016 12:18 PM ESTWhile virtually most, if not all, cases of Zika virus are mosquito-borne, a rare case of sexually transmitted Zika infection has been reported in Dallas, Texas
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Hawaii Baby Born With Zika And Microcephaly
By Jenn Loro | Jan 20, 2016 08:52 AM ESTThe first-ever US case of a baby born with brain defect linked to mosquito-borne Zika virus was reported in Hawaii but infection could have likely occurred in Brazil where the mother stayed last year prompting US health officials to issue a travel alert informing pregnant women to avoid visiting a number of Caribbean and Latin American countries and territories with high rates of serious birth defects caused by mosquitoes.
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First Case Of Zika Virus Confirmed in the U.S.
By R. Siva Kumar | Jan 02, 2016 08:34 PM ESTTill last year, there was no confirmed case of the Zika virus in the western hemisphere, but it has at last made an entrance in the U.S.
