Zika virus

Thank goodness it’s the slow season in Florida.

There’s no official warning to stay clear of Florida, but the crowds that usually wander among the bold street murals in Miami’s trendy Wynwood arts district may be thinner after reports that mosquitoes in the area have spread the Zika virus on the U.S. mainland for the first time.

Since the attribution to the formerly harmless virus Zika of a cluster of cases in northeastern Brazil of the devastating birth defect microcephaly, the mainstream media have been dominated by fear of a Zika pandemic. Meanwhile, the real culprit(s) behind the surge in microcephaly in that corner of Brazil have been ignored, with the exception of a few scientists, and even fewer journalists.

The 2016 Summer Olympics scheduled in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has raised health concerns due to the country being the epicenter of the infamous Zika virus.

Puerto Rico announced Friday that it has recorded the first Zika-related U.S. death amid an outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus in the U.S. territory.

Peter Piot and his peers co-discovered Ebola in 1976. We speak with the pandemic expert about the global health community’s response to Zika.

The Zika virus, associated with brain-related birth defects, has finally reached the windy city this week.

On a farm in the heart of Hawaii’s ongoing dengue outbreak, coffee grows wild among the ferns, and vanilla vines climb guava trees

The World Health Organization says women in countries hit by the Zika virus should breastfeed their babies and there is no proof the disease can spread to their infants that way