United States health officials have lately highlighted the Zika virus is scarier than earlier thought of. It has spread to about thirty states. In the White House the Republican-led Congress has been asked to approve an emergency fund of $1.9 billion for Zika virus preparedness. President Barack Obama made the […]

Zika virus is more of concern now by the World Health Organization (WHO). It has issued warning Friday for pregnant women from across the world not to visit Zika affected zones. Last month the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) too warned the same as the virus is […]

At least 3,100 pregnant women in Colombia are said officially have been affected with the Zika virus while it is spreading rapidly across the Americas. Meanwhile, Brazil is still investigating potential link between the mosquito-borne Zika infections and thousands of microcephaly cases in which new born babies have abnormally small […]

World Health Organization (WHO) declares after Monday’s emergency meeting of independent experts the Zika virus outbreak is a global emergency even without getting a definitive evidence it is causing a surge in babies born with brain defects in Brazil. The UN agency called the outbreak as an extraordinary event posing […]

Federal government said Wednesday to be supporting the two groups that want to deploy drones to fight Zika. They will be helped with funds in the development of such drones that could be capable of dropping off Zika-fighting mosquitoes or ferry lab samples from remote regions. The groups now joins […]

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has lately warned pregnant women not to travel to several Southeast Asian countries including Thailand as Zika virus has started spreading. CDC said Zika travel notice regions should be avoided by pregnant women and they should consider postponing non-essential travel to […]