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Mario Tama / Kevin Frayer / Getty / … How to Beat Dengue and Zika: Add a Microbe to Mosquitoes
After 30 years of development, virus-beating insects are finally being deployed in megacities around the world.
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Regis Duvignau / Reuters Pregnant in Miami With Zika on the Loose
Life is stressful enough when you’re expecting a baby.
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Brennan Linsley / AP Three Kinds of Vaccines Protect Monkeys from Zika
Next up: human trials.
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Jorge Cabrera/AP Parents Are Being Sold Zika Protection That Doesn't Work
Avoid mosquito repellants that replace effective ingredients with botanicals and B vitamins.
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Bobby Yip / Reuters There's Probably Way More Zika in the United States Than Has Been Counted
New computer modeling suggests the virus has been underestimated by tens of thousands of cases.
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Denis Balibouse / Reuters Florida's Worsening Zika Outbreak
The number of those infected in the U.S. from mosquitos has risen from four to 14.
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Daniel Becerril / Reuters Mosquitoes Are Spreading Zika in Florida
Four cases of the virus in the Miami area represent the first known local transmission in the continental United States.
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Paulo Whitaker / Reuters Mosquitoes May Be Spreading Zika in Florida
Four recent cases in the state have raised the likelihood of mosquito-borne infection for the first time in the U.S.
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Jim Young / Reuters A Bizarre New Zika Infection in Utah
Public health officials are trying to understand how a person who cared for a patient who died of Zika contracted the virus.
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Pilar Olivares / Reuters A Threat Bigger Than Zika
Members of Congress left for a seven-week recess without agreeing to help fund efforts to fight the virus. Public health officials say the implications of their inaction are staggering.
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Felipe Dana / AP Congress Falls Short on Zika
Public-health officials are strategizing how to combat the virus with no new money on the horizon—and Congress away for the summer.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Can Women Spread Zika Sexually, Too?
A new case study finds the virus in a woman’s genital tract, where it lived longer than in her blood.
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Lydia Polimeni / NIH Another Step Forward for National Institutes of Health Funding
A House panel signed off on a $1.25 billion boost for the health agency, less than the Senate’s $2 billion allocation.
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Eric Gaillard / Reuters The Importance of Contraception to the Zika Fight
After bug spray, birth control is the best weapon available right now.
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Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters The Danger of a Third-Trimester Zika Infection
New research shows brain damage among Zika-infected babies, even when they are born with normal-sized heads.
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Andres Martinez / Reuters Zika Is the ‘Most Difficult’ Emergency Health Response Ever, CDC Official Says
How the virus is spread, its disproportionate danger for pregnant women, and the delay in its worst effects combine to make this outbreak particularly tough.
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Denis Balibouse / Reuters A Surprising Link Between Zika and Dengue
New research finds some dengue fever antibodies can help neutralize Zika—but they can also make Zika infections worse.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters House Democrats Try to Force Another Vote on Zika
Members are pushing forward on a plan to fully fund the Obama administration’s $1.9 billion request.
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Paulo Whitaker / Reuters Will Congress Reach an Agreement on Zika?
Lawmakers began formal talks on funding this week, as deadlines loom.
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Ricardo Moraes / Reuters The Zika Olympics
The upcoming 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro have sparked a debate about how much risk is too much.
