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Alvin Baez / Reuters Another American Zika Birth
A woman in New Jersey gave birth to a baby girl this week after being infected with the virus.
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Paulo Whitaker / Reuters If a Pregnant Woman Gets Zika, What's the Risk of Microcephaly for the Baby?
A new analysis of data from the outbreak in Brazil
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Nir Elias / Reuters Your Spare Computing Power Could Help Fight Zika
Scientists are using a network called the World Community Grid to process huge amounts of data in an attempt to understand how to tackle the virus.
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Josh Replogle / AP The Count of American Zika Cases Just Got Bigger
The CDC is now reporting that nearly 300 women in the U.S. and its territories have the virus.
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Felipe Dana / AP The Still Uncertain Future of Zika Funding
The U.S. Senate passed a $1.1 billion compromise. But it might not last.
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jumpingsack / shutterstock / The Atlantic Tracing Zika Back to Patient Zero
Researchers must work their way backward to understand the mutations that made the disease a pandemic.
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James Gathany / Centers for Disease Control and … The Other Zika Mosquito
The virus has been detected in Aedes albopictus, which has a larger range than Aedes aegypti, but bites humans less.
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Lynne Sladky / AP Why Zika Needed An Ounce of Prevention
Congress delayed the fight to fund the virus—a decision that comes at the cost of public health and potentially billions for the U.S. economy.
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Carolyn Kaster / Reuters The Senate Goes Home Without Funding Zika
Lawmakers are still split on how the administration’s viral offensive should be funded, and by how much.
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James Gathany/ CDC / Reuters Genetically Modified Mosquitoes: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The Zika virus could open the door for a new era of gene-tweaking for pest control and disease prevention.
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Paulo Whitaker / Reuters The Sneak-Attack Mosquito
The bug at the center of the Zika outbreak, Aedes aegypti, loves humans, hides under beds, and can breed practically anywhere.
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Nacho Doce / Reuters Zika Is a Delayed Epidemic
What it means when an outbreak’s worst effects occur in the long-term.
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Pilar Olivares / Reuters Keeping Mosquitoes at Bay in the Age of Zika
The chemicals in most bug sprays—including DEET—are considered safe for pregnant women, as long as they're used as directed, in moderate concentrations.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Obama Administration’s Zika Offensive
Top public-health officials have joined the political fight over emergency funding for efforts to stop the virus.
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Alvin Baez / Reuters A Zika Catastrophe Could Rival Hurricane Katrina
Health officials warn that the mosquito-borne illness isn’t just a medical problem; it’s a socioeconomic one.
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Ueslei Marcelino / Reuters Zika Linked to Ever More Neurological Conditions
While the virus has finally been said to cause microcephaly and Guillain-Barré, researchers are starting to discover its connections to other nerve disorders.
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David Mercado / Reuters What Zika Researchers Can Learn From the Rubella Outbreak of 1964
The viruses have key similarities that may help scientists respond to a possible epidemic.
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Paulo Whitaker / Reuters When in Pregnancy Is Zika Most Dangerous?
There’s early evidence that the mosquito-borne virus can harm and even kill fetuses in the third trimester.
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Andrew Monaghan / NCAR Which U.S. Cities Are at Risk for a Zika Outbreak?
New research estimates how the mosquitoes that carry the virus could spread up the continent this summer.
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Stefan Wermuth / Reuters An Outbreak of Conspiracy Theories
Why do emerging diseases like Zika tend to breed tall tales of sinister plots?
