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The CDC’s latest report on Zika also states that the virus “can also be transmitted from a pregnant mother to her baby during pregnancy or around the time of birth”, which, understandably has pregnant women scared.

A woman leaves her apartment as health workers fumigates her neighbourhood as part of preventive measures against the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases in Soyapango, El Salvador, January 21, 2016.

The Dallas Cowboys and Tony Romo are planning for the quarterback to have offseason surgery to plate his left collarbone in attempt to prevent future injuries, according to sources.

As zika virus is sweeping through Latin America, the advice for Kiwi women who are pregnant or planning to be is to hold off travelling to affected countries.

Babies across the region, and at least one in the United States, have been born with abnormally smaller heads – a condition doctors call microcephaly, which can cause brain damage.

Brazil has the largest-known outbreak of the virus which has been linked to a spike in birth defects in new-born babies whose mothers were bitten by the mosquito during pregnancy.

The Zika virus is confirmed in cases from Brazil to Mexico, and just last week the first Texas case was confirmed in Harris County in a traveler returning from Latin America.

In Bangkok, The Public Health Ministry on Sunday announced the country’s second confirmed case of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV).

According to ESPN.com’s Christina Kahrl, the revised rules will place fewer restrictions on transgender athletes when it comes to their ability to compete in the Games.

A man left brain dead after a drug trial in northwest France died on Sunday, said the hospital where he was being treated.

In fact, January is known in health circles as National Cervical Health Awareness Month.

Victoria Azarenka is showing shades of the form which took her to two Australian Open titles as the Belarusian stormed into the last-16 once again in Melbourne on Saturday.

The first case of a scary new disease called Zika Fever to be confirmed in the United States has been isolated in a person in Houson who just returned from El Salvador, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports.

Travel warnings about the Zika virus, especially for pregnant women, are very much in the news now, but the germ was discovered more than a half century ago, and you may have already visited places where it flourishes.

Last month, the 32-year-old former hedge fund manager was arrested in NY and charged with securities fraud and conspiracy related to another pharmaceutical company he previously ran called Retrophin.