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Malaysias Health Ministry said it has increased its monitoring at the two main entry points to Johor following reports of confirmed Zika cases in Singapore. In a statement yesterday, health director general Noor Hisham Abdullah pointed to reports about a 47-year-old Malaysian woman in Singapore who...
A new report shows how the Zika virus can harm a babys brain, despite normal ultrasounds early in the pregnancy. The case study adds new worries about the Zika link to severe birth defects. When a Pregnant Woman Gets Zika, The Virus is Not Just in the Babys Brain In the new case study, Zika...
Zika has been sexually transmitted in Texas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday. It is the first known case of the virus being locally acquired in the continental United States in the current outbreak. The case, announced by Dallas County health officials, involved a patient who had...
Do you know about Zika Virus? Zika Virus disease is caused by a virus transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. Introduction Zika virus is an emerging mosquito-borne virus that was first identified in Uganda in 1947 in rhesus monkeys through a monitoring network of sylvatic yellow fever. It was subsequently...
