Zika
Feature
Another Zika vaccine heads to Phase I trials
The candidate vaccine is known as the Zika Purified Inactivated Virus (ZPIV) vaccine and contains whole but inactivated Zika virus particles to...
News from the FDA/CDC
Large increase seen in number of Zika-infected pregnancies
The 288 new cases of pregnant women with laboratory evidence of Zika infection reported for the week ending Oct. 27, 2016, represent the largest...
News from the FDA/CDC
United States nears 3,000 Zika-infected pregnancies
There were 54 new cases of pregnant women with laboratory evidence of Zika virus in the 50 states and D.C. reported during the week ending Oct. 20...
News from the FDA/CDC
Zika increase slows slightly in pregnant women
The total number of pregnant women with laboratory evidence of Zika infection in the United States and its territories rose by 142 for the week...
News from the FDA/CDC
Number of Zika-infected pregnant women continues to climb
The number of pregnant women with laboratory evidence of Zika infection increased by 209 for the week ending Oct. 6, the second-largest weekly...
Conference Coverage
Zika funding slated for prevention, vaccine development
The country’s health care agencies will use the $1.1 billion in funding approved by Congress for vaccine development, mosquito control, and...
From the Journals
Congenital Zika syndrome includes range of neurologic abnormalities
Researchers have proposed the term ‘congenital Zika syndrome’ to cover the range of severe damage and developmental abnormalities – including...
Article
Zika virus shows no signs of slowing down
The Zika virus had another big week as the number of new cases among pregnant women topped 200 again for the week ending Sept. 22, according to...
News
Zika cases in pregnant women hit new weekly high
News
Two novel DNA Zika virus vaccines set for human trials
The search is on for clinical trial participants to help verify whether two genetically based vaccines that lowered Zika virus viremia in infected...
News
Case-control study points to Zika virus as cause of microcephaly
A new study from Brazil demonstrates that microcephaly is strongly associated with congenital Zika virus infections, offering case-control...