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This started in October, and more cases linked to E.coli were reported in November.

Some 3,500 cases have been diagnosed in babies born to Brazilian women, many of whom were infected with Zika, and though there is no definitive evidence, the suspected link is strong enough to warrant urgent study. “That birth defect is a small head and brain called...

The WHO predicted that by 2017, as many as 4 million people in the Americas could be infected by the virus.

The 12 people hospitalized have been from six US states: Indiana, Michigan, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Owing to which, one person has died and 12 others have fallen sick.

According to the Swiss media, the doctors earlier had chose to separate the two children after they are several months old.

The state of Texas has six confirmed travel-related cases of Zika virus disease in the state.

Bilkulonline.com, Mumbai, Feb 1: BJP Lok Sabha member and former Bollywood star Hema Malini, who is now at the centre of a row over the allotment of a plot for her dance academy, on Monday denied allegations of indulging in “land-grabbing”.

A man who traveled to South America has developed the third case of Zika virus in IL.

More than 2,100 pregnant Colombian women are infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus, the country’s national health institute said on Saturday, as the disease continues its spread across the Americas.

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...