To fight Zika, let's genetically modify mosquitoes – the old-fashioned way
Apr 29, 2016 10:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
The near panic caused by the rapid spread of the Zika virus has brought new urgency to the question of how best to control mosquitoes that transmit human diseases. Aedes aegypti mosquitoes bite people across the globe,...
What autoimmune disorder is newly linked to Zika?
Apr 19, 2016 06:54 am UTC| Health
The ongoing Zika virus outbreak in South America has brought media and research attention to several rare neurological disorders. Early reports suggested links between Zika infection and microcephaly (abnormal smallness...
Ebola and Zika epidemics are driven by pathologies of society, not just a virus
Mar 30, 2016 15:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
The global health threats posed by recent viral epidemics, such as avian flu, H1N1, Ebola and Zika, have been happening too frequently to be dismissed as coincidental. Unless the global public health community invests...
New mosquito threats shift risks from our swamps to our suburbs
Mar 29, 2016 05:10 am UTC| Health
The outbreak of Zika virus has refocused the attention of health authorities on mosquito-borne disease. The virus has now been reported from almost 40 countries and the list is growing with imported cases of the disease...
Zika and abortion: will the virus prompt Latin America to rethink abortion and birth control?
Mar 16, 2016 14:24 pm UTC| Health
Alexandra Minna Stern, Professor of American Culture, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Womens Studies; Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Brazil Initiative, University of Michigan The...
How do we know the Zika virus will cost the world $3.5 billion?
Feb 24, 2016 09:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Health
The mosquito-borne Zika virus has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization. The virus not only appears to severely harm unborn children but is also hurting the...
Using birth control to combat Zika virus could affect future generations
Feb 22, 2016 15:50 pm UTC| Health
In a recent article, Oxford Universitys director of medical ethics, Dominic Wilkinson, argued that birth control was a key way of tackling the Zika viruss apparently devastating effects on unborn children a strategy that...
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