New research shows common local mosquitoes aren’t able to spread Zika. This means Australia is unlikely to see a major outbreak of the disease. But a risk remains in northern Queensland.
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Congress has failed three times to approve spending to stop the spread of Zika. Their long-term response isn’t much better.
A computer model suggests that while more cases of Zika can be expected in the continental U.S. outbreaks will probably be small and are not projected to spread.
Politics, not epidemiology or medicine, drives government responses to disease. Politicians are the ultimate decision-makers in public health, and they must respond to political forces.
Arthrogryposis is where a baby’s joints are deformed due to a shortening (known as contractures) of the muscles from before birth.
A pregnant woman’s immune response may be a risk factor for some neurological conditions like autism and schizophrenia in the baby later on.
Physicians like me are learning about Zika along with our patients. This takes a dose of humility on our part and an understanding from our patients that we learn something new every single day.
Zika had already reached 46,000 probable cases by the end of May 2016 and is transmitted by the same mosquito species as dengue and Chikungunya.
Though separated by time and place, there are surprising similarities in the the social issues raised by the rubella outbreak of 1964-65 and the recent Zika outbreak in South America.
Public health experts enlist the molecular biology tools that create genetically modified organisms – as well as the GMOs themselves – in the fight against emerging infectious diseases.
The chance the someone at the Rio games will import the virus to their home country is low.
Recently two events concerning the Zika epidemic coincided: two potential vaccines against the virus were declared a success when used in mice, and Jason Day withdrew from the Olympic Games.
Inflammation caused by mosquito bites helps viruses to infect the body.
Innovations targeted at mosquito control are good but should not draw focus away from the tried and tested public health measures to control mosquito-borne diseases.
More people in the U.S. and world will be exposed to the disease-carrying mosquito Aedes aegypti, not just because of warmer temperatures but global population changes as well.
A drought in the socialist South American country has led to blackouts, political conflict and increased exposure to Zika.
Academics have sent an open letter to the World Health Organisation calling for the Olympics to be postponed or moved because of the Zika threat. They’re overreacting.
The outbreak of mosquito-borne Zika virus in South America has cast a shadow over preparations for the Olympic and Paralympic Games to be held in Rio de Janerio.
The active ingredient in the gel can bind to various viruses and stop them from attaching and getting into human cells.
The number of new Zika-related microcephaly cases in Brazil is falling. But it’s too early to relax.
Top contributors
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Clinical Associate Professor, School of Medical Science & Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute; Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney
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Medical Entomologist, The University of Queensland
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Medical scientist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Epidemiologist, Honorary Associate Professor, Australian National University
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Principal Medical Scientist and Head of Laboratory for Antimalarial Resistance Monitoring and Malaria Operational Research, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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Associate Dean For Global One Health, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences; and Director, Pandemic and Biosecurity Policy Program, Scowcroft Institute for International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University
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Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University
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Distinguished Professor, Public Health and Medical Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Project Manager; Centre for Advanced Training Systems, University of Newcastle
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Dean Students, College of Health, Adelaide University
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Lecturer (University of Tasmania), University of Tasmania
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Professor of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
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Emeritus Professor of Zoology, University of Aberdeen
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Senior lecturer, University of York
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Boswell Distinguished Professor of Global Health, DePauw University