The rare birth defect is associated with the mosquito-borne Zika virus. — -- At the center of the Zika virus crisis is the rise of a dangerous condition called microcephaly. The rare birth defect ...

On Monday, director general of the World Health Organization Dr. Margaret Chan declared the mosquito-borne Zika virus to be an international public health emergency. Chan made a particular point of ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- After news that a baby was born in Harris County with Microcephaly associated with the Zika Virus, a Houston-area mother is shedding light on what it's like living with the defect.

The decision is based not on one single piece of conclusive evidence, but rather a growing body of research. A report on the CDC’s decision was published in The New England Journal of Medicine. The ...

A consortium of Brazilian research centers has gathered data on 843 children born from 2015 to 2018 with Zika-related ...

On July 22, officials from the New York City Department of Health announced the city’s first case of Zika-related microcephaly in a baby born in a city hospital to a mother who contracted the virus ...

Zika, a mosquito-borne virus first identified in 1947 in a Rhesus macaque monkey, continues to perplex scientists in many ways nearly 80 years later. While many people with a Zika virus infection ...

Zika virus (ZIKV) is a mosquito-borne orthoflavivirus that can cause birth defects, including microcephaly, a condition in which head and brain size are significantly reduced at birth. The collective ...

The mosquito-borne Zika virus hijacks a host protein called ANKLE2 to support its own reproduction. ANKLE2 is involved in brain development in the fetus and because Zika can cross the placenta and ...

* Causation not proven but "increasing accumulation of evidence" * WHO to accelerate research on diagnostics, vaccines * New tools also to be studied for controlling mosquitoes (Adds quotes, details,) ...

New York, N.Y. (WPVI) -- The U.S. territory of Puerto Rico today reported a jump in the number of mosquito-borne Zika virus cases. Health Secretary Ana Rius says there are 18 confirmed cases, though ...

Epidemiological studies show that in utero fetal infection with the Zika virus (ZIKV) may lead to microcephaly, an irreversible congenital malformation of the brain characterized by an incomplete ...