Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Wednesday enough evidence show brain damage and small heads in infants born to infected mothers with Zika virus. CDC director Dr Thomas R. Frieden said they have reached to the conclusion after…
Read More »Zika Virus Is Scarier Than Thought: US Health Officials
Zika virus is rapidly spreading and as an aftermath concerns are also growing faster. Six cases have been found in Maryland and if believed to health experts the mosquito that carries it has been found in 30 states of the…
Read More »Pregnant Women Suggested Not To Visit Zika Active Zones By WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) seems to be more concerned about Zika virus than what it was for Ebola about a year ago. Lately it has cautioned pregnant women from traveling to active Zika zones citing the link with birth…
Read More »Zika Virus Even Spreads Through Blood Transfusion: Report
Zika Virus Highlights: A wait of 28 days has been urged by US Red Cross for travelers to donate blood. Two people in the southeastern part of Brazil have been confirmed contracted Zika virus through blood transfusion. Zika virus is…
Read More »WHO Declares Zika Virus Outbreak A Global Emergency
Brazil says Zika virus outbreak is worst than believed and the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it as a global emergency on Monday due to lack of definitive evidence proving it is causing a surge in newborns with brain defects…
Read More »Zika Virus Spreading Explosively In America: WHO
Mosquito-borne Zika virus disease is spreading could affect about four million people in United States, said World Health Organization (WHO) Thursday in Geneva. Addressing to the member of executive board of WHO, director-general Margaret Chan said the disease has reached…
Read More »How To Avoid Mosquito Bites And Hence Zika, Dengue, Chikungunya Viruses
Zika virus has links with neurological disorder microcephaly and is being spread by mosquitoes similar to dengue and chikungunya in Texas, Florida and Hawaii causing severe pain, bleeding, shock and death. In past few years chikungunya has been common in…
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