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The discovery came from a small-scale targeted screening of patient samples in 2023, revealing five Zika virus cases in Dhaka, according to a report published on the icddr,b website today (3 March).

Since WHO declared the Zika virus epidemic a public health emergency of international concern in 2016, there remain no licensed vaccines, therapeutics, or diagnostic tests for routine antenatal ...

Brazilian researchers have developed a simple test that almost instantly tells whether a person has been exposed to any of ...

Department of Chemistry, Research Institute for Convergence of Basic Sciences, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at Zika virus, an illness spread through mosquito bites that can cause birth defects and other neurological defects. Zika virus is a flavivirus, part of the same family ...

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A new animal-borne virus has been discovered in Alabama. But the creature that carries it can be found along parts of the Atlantic seaboard, as far north as southern Saskatchewan, Canada ...

A fatal virus has reportedly been discovered in shrews in Alabama, sparking concerns about potential contagion to humans. The Camp Hill virus — thought to be the first "henipavirus" in North ...

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 ...

The virus, called highly pathogenic H5N9, is a type of avian influenza, otherwise known as "bird flu." This is not the same type of bird flu that's already been spreading on dairy cow and poultry ...