Health authorities in northern India’s Kanpur city recorded 98 new cases of Zika on Tuesday as the community continues to battle an outbreak of the mosquito-borne illness that sparked in October, India’s Mint newspaper reported.
Florida health officials have confirmed the first case of sexually-transmitted Zika virus in the Miami area.
The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) reported they sprayed mosquitoes in more than 1.4 million acres ravaged by Hurricane Harvey. Officials plan to thwart the winged insects from breeding across multiple waterlogged counties, preventing a surge in their population and the diseases they carry, notably West Nile and Zika viruses.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that there have been 43,485 laboratory confirmed cases of the Zika virus in all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and U.S. Territories.
Golfer extraordinaire, Rory McIlroy, admitted in a recent interview that he wasn’t forthright when he blamed fear of contracting the Zika virus as the reason that he withdrew from the 2016 Rio Olympics in August.
While the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the global Zika outbreak no longer an emergency this week, officials in Brazil fear that the incoming spring season will provide a boost to the nation’s mosquito population, and the government will be ill-prepared to stop a second wave of Zika.
Municipal workers in central Israel on Sunday sprayed pesticides in the vicinity of the home of a person found to be carrying the dangerous Zika virus, local media reported.
It’s nearly the end of September and time once again for another congressional battle over a continuing resolution – or CR – a spending bill that funds the government for a short period of time. This time, the crux of the battle is over funding for Zika virus research and prevention.
A new study published in the British medical journal Lancet reveals a “striking magnitude of association between microcephaly and Zika virus infection” and warns readers to “prepare for a global epidemic of microcephaly and other manifestations of congenital Zika syndrome.”
HOUSTON, Texas – A doctor in the Texas Medical Center says if men want to have children, they should freeze their sperm before traveling to areas that have had outbreaks of the Zika virus.
Police departments are cracking down on meth users in a comical way.
A two-block area of San Diego’s Mount Hope neighborhood will be sprayed for mosquitoes who could potentially carry the Zika virus next next week, after a resident tested positive for the disease.
Medical experts tracking the spread of the Zika virus throughout the continental United States warn that the conditions for rapid mosquito reproduction necessary for an outbreak exist throughout the Gulf Coast states and stretch as far north as Maryland.
Walt Disney World is planning on giving park-goers free insect repellent as soon as Sunday due to the increased threat the Zika virus poses to Florida. Universal Orlando and SeaWorld are following suit.
During Saturday’s Weekly Address, President Obama accused Congressional Republicans of not sharing the “extreme concern” about the Zika virus of Americans who expect children. Transcript as Follows: “Earlier this year, I got a letter from a South Carolina woman named
While the Miami Dolphins sharpen their X’s and O’s in a pre-season exhibition game against the Tennessee Titans on Thursday at the newly named Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, the organization will also hone its defense against Zika-carrying mosquitos.
Democratic Miami Beach, FL Mayor Philip Levine discussed the five confirmed cases of the Zika virus linked to the beach on Sunday’s “Cats Roundtable” on New York AM 970, saying the virus has been contained. “Those 15 mosquitos have been put
Five cases of local Zika transmission have been reported in Miami Beach, widening the area of Zika exposure after a week of hopeful speculation that the outbreak had been contained.
A Texan infected with the Zika virus has been confirmed in Midland County in West Texas. Health officials said the victim had recently traveled to a country where the virus is locally transmitted by mosquitoes.
CNN is reporting that officials in Florida have now confirmed a total of 33 Zika cases not contracted by traveling abroad to affected areas, doubling the number of local cases from the initial fifteen that led to a CDC warning against traveling to Miami.
Three more cases of Zika virus transmission have been reported from the outbreak area in northern Miami, making a total of 25 cases reported to date.
Grammy-winning reggae star Beenie Man says he was forced to drop out of a scheduled performance Saturday night at Toronto’s annual OVO Fest when the Canadian government denied his visa request after he contracted the Zika virus.
Senate Democrats are leaving Washington, D.C. for their summer recess after blocking a GOP $1.1 billion measure that would have funded efforts to fight the Zika virus.
Florida U.S. Rep. Tom Rooney (R) writes in an op-ed at the Palm Beach Post that Democrats are blaming Republicans for the failure of the Zika funding bill in order to advance their radical pro-abortion and environmental agendas.
“You know we’re really at the beginning of understanding Zika in pregnancy,” Rear Adm. Anne Schuchat, M.D. emphasized in her testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
Brazil is struggling to ensure Rio de Janeiro, arguably the country’s most chaotic city, is prepared to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games scheduled to start on August 5.
Planned Parenthood has been taking advantage of fears surrounding the Zika virus and the birth defect known as microcephaly that is linked with the virus. The abortion giant is particularly targeting Latin American countries that have restrictive abortion laws, in hopes of capitalizing on women’s fear and changing those laws
Through its alliance with the Democrat Party and the pro-abortion mainstream media, Planned Parenthood has promoted the notion that its biggest money-makers — abortion and birth control — are the means to combat the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which is being linked to cases of a rare birth defect called microcephaly, primarily in Brazil.
Seventeen Members of Congress, including two powerful committee chairmen from Texas, have asked President Obama to raise travel warnings to Level 3 for countries with high levels of the Zika virus.
Ten pregnant women tested positive with preliminary testing for Zika in Dallas County. The good news is they all contracted the virus outside of the United States. Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) Director Zachary Thompson announced 10 pregnant women traveled to Zika hot spots and got infected with the virus. Thompson spoke to the Dallas County Commissioners Court, the Dallas Morning News reported Tuesday.
LONDON (Reuters) – Four-times Major winner Rory McIlroy will not compete in this summer’s Rio Olympic Games, citing health fears over the Zika virus, he said on Wednesday. “After speaking with those closest to me, I’ve come to realise that
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) have confirmed that six infants have been born in U.S. states with birth defects following their mother’s infection with the Zika virus. 234 women in the continental United States have tested positive for Zika.
Pregnant TV anchor Savannah Guthrie took advantage of NBC Universal’s decision not to require employees to attend the Olympics because of the Zika virus to announce on Tuesday that she will pass on the trip to Rio.
A new health report from the Pentagon revealed that at least 11 U.S. military personnel have been infected with the Zika virus, along with four dependents (spouses or children) of military members and two military retirees.
150 public health experts are calling on the World Health Organization (WHO) and International Olympic Commission (IOC) to postpone or relocate the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in response to the outbreak of Zika virus in that city that has infected thousands and caused thousands of cases of birth defects in infants.
Liberal Democrats in the House rejected a bill that would end a redundant Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) permit requirement to spray federally approved pesticides into bodies of water to combat the mosquito that carries the Zika virus.
Thirty-five cases of the Zika Virus have been reported in Texas but the virus is expected to spread in the Lone Star State during mosquito season. The threat is especially likely near the Texas-Mexico border and along the Gulf Coast.
Scientists in Texas are the first to have successfully cloned the Zika virus. Experts at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston say the Zika clone can help in the development of an effective vaccine.
A new study has allowed scientists to watch the Zika virus destroy nascent brain cells in mice fetuses, proving definitively the link between the virus and birth defects in humans as well as cementing suspicions that the strain of Zika spreading in Latin America is a more dangerous mutation than those seen previously.
Williamson County confirmed its first case of the Zika virus on Tuesday. The person was infected when they traveled to a country plagued by the virus. A traveled-related Zika virus case in Collin County was also reported on Monday.
