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So far, there have been no reports of sexual transmission of Zika virus from infected women to their sex partners, the CDC added.

Scientists believe the virus attacks the baby’s brain, triggering microcephaly, a condition in which newborns have abnormally small heads, impaired vision and brain damage.

He spoke a day before tens of thousands of soldiers and health inspectors were to take to the streets in an unprecedented drive to encourage residents to be vigilant for mosquito breeding sites.

Abhishek Joshi, a heart doctor at St Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, said the new contracts could stop hospital operators from being penalised if doctors work prolonged shifts, “at the end of which we’ll be exhausted and therefore dangerous”.

They are being advised to abstain from sexual relations or use condoms if the male partner has been to a place where the Zika virus is transmitting.

Many countries have raised their alert levels or boosted their efforts against the Zika virus as scientists race to develop a vaccine for Zika, but the World Health Organization (WHO) says vaccines could come out in at least 18 months.

Except when they didn’t.

Discovered in Uganda in 1947, the current outbreak of Zika virus in Brazil began in early 2015 and has spread to over 20 other countries in the Americas, including Mexico and Puerto Rico.

The British Medical Association has lambasted government’s decision to impose a new contract on junior doctors working in the NHS.

“I thank god every day that George W. Bush was President, but Jeb has no foreign policy experience”. Campbell drew parallels between her late husband and Bush, who governed Florida for two terms. Marco Rubio, who stood out during the Iowa caucuses but slid rapidly...

Zika virus, which is spread by infected mosquitos, has been appearing around the continental United States, mostly in travelers who have visited a Zika-affected area. Wadsworth is one of only three state laboratories in the country equipped to perform the screening and...

Zika is primarily transmitted through a mosquito bite, and there is no indication that it can be spread from person to person through casual contact.

But the decision-making process behind Trials marathon-World Indoor bid isn’t the only question Virgin and many others in the sport have about Salazar, Rupp and the Nike Oregon Project. But what marathoners like to do, even the days before a race, is to go for a three- or...

The finding suggests that the mosquito-spread virus may unexpectedly hang around in the body for much longer than symptoms appear, which typically only last for about a week.

Or it could be that you accidentally kept the Fitbit on during sex – like this woman who did so a year ago and saw a number of heart rate spikes during her steamy, eight-minute session.