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Officials have confirmed the first case of a patient having Zika virus in Tarrant County. The Lab will release 250,000 genetically modified mosquitoes in two neighborhoods with a large concentration of incident cases of egypti aedes mosquito, the modified mosquitoes compete with...

The CDC said all 14 cases involve women whose only known risk factor is sexual contact with a male partner who had recently traveled to an area with local Zika transmissions.

Among them is big data company Cloudera, which promises to provide training to 1,000 precision medicine researchers over the next three years and offer free subscriptions to the company’s platforms to 50 institutions working in the field.

A total of 32 cases of Zika have been confirmed so far in Florida, all of which were acquired outside of the United States.

If a doctor spotted hydrops alone, “you might not immediately attribute it to Zika virus because what has been described are brain abnormalities”, said Dr. Sallie Permar of the Duke Human Vaccine Institute, an expert on maternal-fetal viral infections who wasn’t...

Three pregnant women tested positive for the Zika virus in Florida and another woman in MI, health officials say.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with state health departments, is investigating 14 new reports of possible sexual transmission of Zika in the USA, the agency announced Tuesday.

Florida Surgeon General and Secretary of Health Dr. John Armstrong said on Wednesday that several women who have traveled to countries with local transmission of Zika have received antibody testing. The CDC believes the 14 new cases may have been acquired by sexual transmission.

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COLUMBUS — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, (CDC) announced on Tuesday that it is investigating 14 new reports of possible sexual transmission of Zika virus in the US, including several involving pregnant women.

The Louisiana House Ways and Means Committee moved forward 32 bills that could potentially increase taxes.

The Minnesota Department of Health said Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, that consumers should not eat alfalfa sprouts from Jack & The Green Sprouts of River Falls, Wis., after several E. coli cases were linked to the sprouts. The illness affected people ages 18 to 84; five were...

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Three pregnant women in Florida have tested positive for the Zika virus, the Florida Department of Health announced Wednesday.

The first known case of Zika virus transmission in the United States was reported in Texas in early February by local health officials, who said it likely was contracted through sex and not a mosquito bite.