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Zika virus

December 2023

  • A close-up shot of an Asian tiger mosquito sucking human blood.

    Health and climate
    Climate crisis could cause 10,000 extra UK deaths a year by 2050, says health body

    A report by the UK Health Security Agency warns that extreme heat could bring a host of tropical diseases transmitted by insects

March 2022

  • Some advocates have raised alarms about the experiments, suggesting that hybrids could develop that might be even more difficult to control.

    US poised to release 2.4bn genetically modified male mosquitoes to battle deadly diseases

    The future isn’t female, at least not for the invasive Aedes aegypti: the altered males are engineered to produce only male offspring

September 2020

  • Bats are trapped in nets to be examined for possible viruses in Franceville, Gabon

    Animals farmed
    'Why wait for it?' How to predict a pandemic

    Strides are being made towards an open access atlas that could predict where dangerous animal-borne viruses will next appear

June 2020

  • An aerial image of mangroves in Morondava, west Madagascar.

    Pandemics result from destruction of nature, say UN and WHO

    Experts call for legislation and trade deals worldwide to encourage green recovery

May 2020

  • Professor Neil Ferguson

    Neil Ferguson: 20 years' experience with pathogen outbreaks

    Workaholic whose departure from Sage is huge blow to Johnson standing on pandemic

January 2020

  • Tourists on a thermographic monitor at the airport in Aceh Besar, Indonesia.

    The disease always gets a head start: how to handle an epidemic

    Outbreaks such as coronavirus, Sars and Ebola have taught us communication is key, and that the world is only as strong as its weakest health system

September 2019

  • An Aedes mosquito feeding on a human arm.

    The long read
    People v mosquitos: what to do about our biggest killer

  • Everton de Freitas, 18, Laisa Conceição, 17, and Eliseu Assunção, 18, in Salvador’s Pau da Lima favela

    Sewage, Zika virus – and the team in Brazil mapping disease hotspots

February 2019

  • A worker fumigates for mosquitoes that transmit malaria in the Petare neighbourhood of Caracas.

    Venezuela crisis threatens disease epidemic across continent - experts

  • Infants born with microcephaly are held by mothers and family members at a meeting for mothers of children with special needs in Recife, Brazil.

    Study of Brazil favela stricken by Zika shows dengue may protect against virus

November 2018

  • Natural human placenta

    Lab-grown placentas 'will transform pregnancy research'

    Cambridge team develops organoids or mini placentas to advance knowledge of stillbirth and pre-eclampsia

August 2018

  • In this Dec. 16, 2016 file photo, Puerto Rico resident Michelle Flandez caresses her two-month-old son Inti Perez, diagnosed with microcephaly linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus, in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. In the first long-term look at what happened to children of U.S. mothers who were infected with Zika during pregnancy, one in seven developed some kind of health problem _ranging from birth defects to conditions that became apparent only later. Health officials released the findings Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2018. (AP Photo/Carlos Giusti)

    Zika: one in seven babies with mothers exposed to virus developed health issues

  • Eliminate Dengue has changed over the years. Since launching our research trials in northern Queensland in 2011, we’ve rapidly expanded around the world. We’re now operating in 10 countries across Asia, Latin America and the Western Pacific, including our original program in Australia. That’s why we’ve become the World Mosquito Program. This name reflects our commitment to helping to protect communities around the world from Zika dengue, and chikungunya using our natural and self-sustaining Wolbachia method.

    Dengue fever outbreak halted by release of special mosquitoes

July 2018

  • Geovane Silva holds his son Gustavo Henrique, who has microcephaly, at the Oswaldo Cruz Hospital in Recife, Brazil, in 2016.

    Zika epidemic sheds light on Brazil's 'invisible children'

    Exclusive: families of thousands of babies born with neurodevelopmental disorders may get help for first time

June 2018

  • Fruit bat

    Scientists aim to stop the devastation of Zika-like pandemics

    Killer viruses can ravage countries, but now a new project hopes to spot diseases likely to jump from animals to humans

March 2018

  • Dom McKenzie illustration

    The Sunday essay
    Are we prepared for the looming epidemic threat?

    Jonathan Quick
  • A father whose daughter was born with microcephaly in Recife

    The first fight
    'There are a lot of unknowns': British scientists set to work on Zika vaccine

February 2018

  • Giovanna Maia with her mother, Germany

    The first fight
    'I don't live any more': Zika takes a heavy toll on families in Brazil

    Since contracting the Zika virus while pregnant, Inabela Tavares has struggled to raise a daughter facing severe developmental challenges

July 2017

  • Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

    'Poverty favours the mosquito': experts warn Zika virus could return to Brazil

    Two months after government says Zika emergency at an end, water shortages and weak health system trigger fears of fresh outbreak

June 2017

  • The Wider Image: Zika: Single mothers<br>Ianka Mikaelle Barbosa, 18, poses for a photograph with Sophia, 18 days old, who is her second child and was born with microcephaly, at her house in Campina Grande, Brazil February 17, 2016. Single parents are common in Brazil where some studies show as many as one in three children from poor families grow up without a biological father, but doctors on the frontline of the Zika outbreak say they are concerned about how many mothers of babies with microcephaly are being abandoned. With the health service already under strain, abortion prohibited, and the virus hitting the poorest hardest, an absent father is yet another burden on mothers already struggling to cope with raising a child that might never walk or talk. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes SEARCH “ZIKA SINGLE” FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH “THE WIDER IMAGE” FOR ALL STORIES

    Up to 1 in 20 babies born to mothers with Zika have birth defects, report says

    Risk jumped to nearly one in 13 when mothers had Zika virus in first trimester, and study comes as the US prepares for mosquito season
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