Brzail has been in news regularly lately. Zika epidemic and Rio Olympics 2016 are the highlights. Risk for spread of the virus is the main matter of concern, but the World Health Organization updated a report revealing flu is a bigger health threat for the athletes than Zika. The WHO, […]

Blood banks to start returning donors who are at Zika virus risk. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has urged to do so. Clinics across the US is following the new protocol and turning back those blood donors who had recently traveled to Zika infected countries or had sex […]

The first Zika-related death was reported late last month in the continental United States. The confirmation has come from the US health officials now. According to the Salt Lake County health department, the Utah resident had an underlying health condition. Earlier this year he traveled to a Zika-affected region and […]

In a new report it is revealed even normal-sized heads in the new born may be affected with Zika virus, leading to the possibilities of brain damage. Lead author of the study, Cesar Victora, said in some of the cases they found women experienced Zika-linked rash in late pregnancy and […]

Demand for abortion pills has increased dramatically in Brazil, Ecuador and couple of other Latin American countries even though most of laws have a ban on abortions. The new trend is the believe to end pregnancies rather than give birth to baby with defects in the Zika virus outbreak countries. […]

Two pathogen reduction technologies is said to be funded by the US government to help reduce the Zika virus risk along with other typs of infections too from being transmitted through blood supply. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Monday to be allocating $30.8 million to Cerus […]