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According to a Canadian Public Health Agency notice, there is concern that an increase in the incidence of microcephaly, or abnormally small heads among newborns reported in Brazil past year may be linked to the Zika virus.

Scientists have been given permission by the UK’s fertility regulator to genetically modify human embryos.

In French Polynesia, where an outbreak is ongoing, three per cent of asymptomatic blood donors had the virus.

Public Health England (PHE) said all men should use condoms for 28 days after coming home from countries like Brazil and Mexico if their partner was at risk of pregnancy, or already pregnant.

New figures from Brazil’s Health Ministry show that the Zika virus outbreak has not caused as many confirmed cases of a rare brain defect as first feared.

Romero says non-chemical solutions now being looked at by the pest control industry include heat, vapour, and encasement methods of killing bed bugs, but he also acknowledges there’s no quick fix to the resistance phenomenon they’ve discovered. Basically, we only have...

The National Health Institute said the authorities had recorded 20,297 cases of Zika infections, with about 10 per cent occurring in pregnant women.

Dr Ian Njeru, Head of Disease Surveillance and Response at the Ministry of Health said a health alert was issued a fortnight ago to health workers at the various points of entry to look out for persons with symptoms that could be associated with Zika Virus.

Johns Hopkins pointed out the importance of this research as the prevalence of autism has “skyrocketed” at the same time that obesity and diabetes have reached epidemic levels in women of child-bearing age.

His rallies have been flooded by enthusiastic supporters, many of them young people, but polls show rival Hillary Clinton has more support among Democratic voters who have participated in the caucuses before.

According to health experts, mosquitoes and their breeding sites pose a significant risk factor for the spread of Zika virus infection.

Health department spokesman Matthew Lipani told Patch Thursday the infected person lives in the northwestern part of Virginia and recently returned from traveling in Central America. And even though many booked these vacations before news of the Zika virus broke, they’re...

This week, GlaxoSmithKline Plc also said it was concluding studies to check whether its technology is suitable for the virus. In Brazil, since the virus was first reported around the beginning of the summer, there have been more than 4000 suspected cases of microcephaly. If the...

According to Nielsen data, about 12.5 million people watched the Republican face-off, beating only an earlier debate on the less-prominent Fox Business Network. “If Fox News has no Trump, then I am all Trump”. Those networks aired segments of a Donald Trump rally,...

Up to six out of 10 pregnancies in Latin America are unplanned, although estimates vary. And some insect repellants – DEET, for example – come with a long list of warnings.