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The Zika virus is particularly troubling due to the potential birth defects it is known to cause, including babies born with neurological defects and abnormally small heads.

Since then, additional cases have been reported in California, Minnesota New York, and Ohio.

But sometimes they simply don’t do too much good, as vaccine for whooping cough not as effective as believed.

As concerns about the Zika virus grow by the day, Oakland resident Brook Meakins is breathing a huge sigh of relief.

Zika is a mosquito-borne virus that’s been strongly linked to severe birth defects.

No medicines are available to treat those with the Zika virus, and there are no vaccines to prevent it. But Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said Thursday that clinical trials on a vaccine could begin this year.

The Denver Broncos defense dominated the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50 and Miller served as the leader of the Orange Rush.

Travis County health officials on Thursday confirmed the first case of the Zika virus in the county.

While the World Health Organization plans to convene an worldwide meeting on the spread of the Zika virus, the CDC says that although limited local transmission of Zika is possible in the United States, it’s unlikely that widespread transmission will occur in the mainland....

Fauci also said, “When you find a virus or fingerprints of a virus in a body secretion, it absolutely does not mean that it is transmitted that way”.

Epidemiologist Jussi Sane at the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) told ABC News that a Finnish tourist was infected by the Zika virus after visiting the Maldives last summer. None of the women involved are pregnant.

As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Thursday, the CDC is now advising any man who has traveled to one of the affected countries to use condoms during all sexual encounters with their pregnant partner for the duration of the pregnancy. “Our new guidance is that...

As many as 60 federal, state and local agencies are involved in Super Bowl security, officials estimated.

Between 2001 and last spring, when Hillary Clinton launched her second presidential campaign, she and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, brought in more than $153 million for making paid speeches, including millions for addresses given to big banks, according to a new...

“Nigerians working at various ports of entry into the country should interview anyone coming from any of the Latin American countries for evidence Zika virus symptoms”, said Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole.