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Locally-Acquired Zika in France

December 12, 2019January 24, 2023 Marinanicole Schultheiss

By: Autumn Gertz Image courtesy of Dean Calma via Flickr Creative Commons Current Situation On October 22, 2019, a second case of locally-acquired Zika virus

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Zika: A Bigger Threat to Pregnancy

July 17, 2018 Natalia Ciesielska

  While first discovered in the African country of Uganda in 1947, Zika virus, carried by mosquitos and endemic in many tropical areas of the

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Local Cases in Texas: A New Front in the Fight Against Zika

December 29, 2016 Chris Mantell

  On December 14th, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) designated Brownsville, Texas as a Zika cautionary zone after the Governor Greg Abbott

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Local Cases in Texas: A New Front in the Fight Against Zika

December 29, 2016 Chris Mantell

  On December 14th, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) designated Brownsville, Texas as a Zika cautionary zone after the Governor Greg Abbott

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Could Genetically Modified Mosquitoes be the Solution?

August 1, 2016 Alejandra Ramirez-Cardenas

On February 2016, in a district of Piracicaba, Brazil, genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes were released in an effort to reduce diseases transmitted by the Aedes

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Colombia Announces End of Zika Outbreak

July 27, 2016 Alejandra Ramirez-Cardenas

On 25th July 2016, Colombia was the first country in Latin America to declare the end of their Zika outbreak. This comes 10 months after

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Vector Control: Our Best Chance in the Fight Against Zika

July 25, 2016 Alejandra Ramirez-Cardenas

Aedes aegypti in the Americas Latin America is currently fighting to prevent the diseases transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito: Zika, Dengue, and Chikungunya. There

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Could Zika be the Mysterious Killer of Howler Monkeys in Nicaragua?

February 24, 2016January 25, 2023 Kara Sewalk

Scientists are concerned that the recent mysterious deaths of howler monkeys in Nicaragua could be a result of the Zika Virus. Recently, nearly 40 howler

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Have We Underestimated the Zika Outbreak in Venezuela?

February 19, 2016 Colleen Nguyen

In Venezuela, there have been reports of over 5,000 suspected cases of the Zika virus [1, 2] – a virus with potential links to severe

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Unraveling the Zika Virus Mystery: Lessons Learned from Another Flavivirus

February 8, 2016 Sumiko Mekaru

Viruses, of course, do not live independently outside of their hosts. Rather, they are uniquely bundled bits of data that use the body of their

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