How do you change other people’s habits — from what they wear, to whether they use condoms — in the interests of their health and public health? In Puerto Rico, during the height of the Zika epidemic there, the stakes were high, as the devastating neurological impacts of the mosquito-born virus on children born to […]
A trial to test the safety of, and immune response prompted by, the latest candidate for a vaccine to protect against Zika virus infection has begun with injections among the first of what is planned to be 28 adult participants. Of the participants, 20 will receive an injection of a live, weakened non-replicating Zika virus created […]
It’s HIV, Ebola and Zika that put these white hairs on his head, Dr. Anthony Fauci told a group of reporters Thursday. Still, he remains startlingly recognizable as the face of biomedical science in the early 1980s, when modern medicine seemed to have met its match. Back then, Dr. Fauci recounts, he had to face […]
The second half of 2016 saw a significant climb in birth defects associated with Zika infections during pregnancy in areas of the United States and its territories where the virus had been transmitted locally, according to a report the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released today. While most of the mothers and infants […]
The case of a Venezuelan woman and her five-month old child both confirmed to have been infected with Zika adds evidence that the virus can be transmitted through breast milk, according to a report in Clinical Infectious Diseases. While the woman had symptoms of Zika infection and the child, like many found to have the […]
A little more than two years after Brazilian health authorities began to note a steep rise in microcephaly incidence among children born in areas affected by an outbreak of Zika, a study involving 19 of those children found evidence of disabilities and severe development delays that will require a range of social and medical services, […]
The first cluster of microcephaly cases just outside Angola’s capital city was noticed in September of this year, marking nine months since tests in January had confirmed the virus in a sick adult, and in a stillborn infant with neurological defects. A WHO bulletin now says cases in the area had surfaced in May and […]
Among men infected with Zika while visiting the Americas, the median time the virus remained after being detected in their semen was nearly three months, a study of infected travelers returning to Belgium has found. Zika was found in semen samples from nine of 15 men who participated in the study, including in the semen […]
By August 2016 the connection between Zika virus infection during pregnancy and severe debilitating neurological birth defects among infants had been confirmed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention four months earlier, and experts had termed the spread of the virus in Puerto Rico “explosive.” The needs to confront the virus effectively on […]
HIV
Dr. Vincent Guilamo-Ramos is the vice-chair of the board of directors of the Latino Commission on AIDS, and director and founder of the Center for Latino […]
Tuberculosis
In the six weeks before South Africa responded its first diagnoses of COVID-19 with the start of physical distancing measures, more than 47,000 people on average […]
Research & Development
With 2018 data showing highest incidence acute flaccid myelitis since monitoring began, officials say awareness, recognition of rare life threatening condition will be crucial to early […]
Policy
By Karen Carvajal, M.D. Over the course of human history we have come a long way in our fight against the threat of infectious diseases and, […]