The Zika virus builds tiny tunnels, called tunneling nanotubes, to stealthily transport material needed to infect nearby ...

Heading south for the winter? Oropouche virus, a new infectious disease, has been reported in travelers from Canada and the ...

A newborn with measles is among the cases reported in the growing West Texas outbreak, Lubbock public health officials say.

Oct. 25, 2023 — Zika virus infection in pregnant rhesus macaques slows fetal growth and affects how infants and mothers interact in the first month of life, according to a new study. The work ...

Zika virus, a mosquito-borne pathogen, is known to cause neurological disorders, birth defects, and pregnancy loss. However, until now, the precise mechanism by which it crosses the placenta was ...

Scientists at the National Institute of Virology NIV have detected a troubling mutation in the Zika virus strain that spread ...

Bangladesh has detected a cluster of Zika virus cases for the first time, in a worrying development in a country that is ...

The International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, or ICDDR,B, has detected the first “cluster” of Zika ...

CIDRAP and global health experts set Zika virus preparedness research priorities, stressing the need for improved diagnostics ...

Scientists at ICDDR'B have recently identified five cases among patient samples collected in 2023, representing the first ...

to prevent infection. But pregnant women cannot get the vaccine; instead, they can receive immunoglobulin, or antibodies, up to six days after a measles exposure. Infants younger than 6 months can ...