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Zika Virus Birth Defects May Be 'Tip of the Iceberg'

Edit NBC News 02 May 2016
The explosion of birth defects linked to the Zika virus may be just the "tip of the iceberg," experts said Sunday. But they have some good news, too ... ....

U.S. Sees 1st Zika Death Amid Funding Stalemate

Edit Chosun Ilbo 02 May 2016
The first known death from the Zika virus on U.S ... Neither house of Congress has approved funding to combat Zika, despite increasingly dire warnings from U.S ... territory, that marked an ominous milestone for the Zika virus in the United States. A Zika infection usually is not life threatening, but it may spread from a pregnant woman to her child and cause microcephaly and other severe conditions....

Zika 'more dangerous than thought'

Edit BBC News 02 May 2016
Scientists in Brazil say the Zika virus may be more dangerous than previously thought ... ....

Zika virus or not, family vacations in French West Indies

Edit Philadelphia Daily News 01 May 2016
Zika virus or not, family vacations in French West Indies ... We had heard that some vacationers were canceling travel to the region because of a spooky, mosquito-borne virus surging in South America and making its way up the archipelago that includes Martinique....

King Calls for Increased Funding to Fight Zika Virus (Angus S Jr King)

Edit Public Technologies 01 May 2016
Senator Angus King (I-Maine) called for increased mosquito abatement funding to support local, state, and national efforts to contain the spread of the Zika virus ... As you consider the supplemental funding request to address the Zika virus emergency, I ask you to include specific additional funding for mosquito surveillance, control, and abatement activities at the state and local level.'....

Mosquitos are the latest fallout from the Houston floods

Edit The Examiner 01 May 2016
“Additionally, we are noticing a marked increase in Zika Virus, with more than 30 cases in Texas already reported.” The virus can affect pregnant women and cause birth defects in their unborn children. Many questions about Zika Virus are largely unanswered, but because the area is a large travel hub and tourist destination, the possibility of an outbreak grows with each day....

Quora Question: Hillary Clinton on How We Stop Zika in the U.S.

Edit Newsweek 01 May 2016
Zika—a virus linked to devastating birth defects—is a serious and urgent threat to the United States ... Next, we have to develop a rapid diagnostic test for Zika—that’s a critical step, since most people who get the virus never develop symptoms and could unknowingly infect others ... How would we go about stopping the spread of the Zika virus in the U.S.?....

Congress heads out with no resolution on Zika, Puerto Rico

Edit Boston Herald 01 May 2016
They left behind few clues about how they would address must-do items such as finding money to counter the Zika virus and a second, even scarier July 1 deadline for averting a fiscal disaster in cash-strapped Puerto Rico ... President Barack Obama's $1.9 billion request for emergency funding to combat the Zika virus, known to cause grave birth defects, has elicited a lukewarm response Republicans controlling Congress....

Zika virus cases rise to 157

Edit Topix 01 May 2016
El nAomero de enfermos de zika en Nicaragua subiA3 a 157, segAon un reporte divulgado este viernespor el Ministerio de Salud, que mantiene en 24 el nAomero de mujeres embarazadas afectadas. The numbes of Zika cases in Nicaragua has risen to 157, according to a report released Friday by the Ministry of Health, while the number of infected pregnant women remains at 24 ... ....

Abortion for Zika legal

Edit Topix 01 May 2016
THE DISCUSSION about abortion and the Zika virus, which is linked to the congenital condition microcephaly, continued yesterday with chairman of the Equal Opportunities Commission Lynette Seebaran-Suite saying that it is legal to abort a child if the mother has the virus. She was speaking yesterday at the NGC Bocas Lit Fest human rights seminar held at the National Library, Port-of-Spain ... ....

Liriano, Jaso help Pirates win 6th straight, 5-1 over Reds

Edit Springfield News-Sun 01 May 2016
ZIKA TALK ... Players from both the Pirates and Miami Marlins have expressed concerns about playing their scheduled two-game series in San Juan, Puerto Rico, from May 30-31 over fears of contracting the Zika virus. According to the Center for Disease Control, Zika can cause a birth defect called microcephaly, which causes infants to be born with very small heads and underdeveloped brains....

Who knew Victoria's Secret Bombshell perfume could do this?

Edit The Times Picayune 01 May 2016
With the Zika virus worrying residents across the United States, what's the best way to keep mosquitos from biting you. NPR posed the question to researchers, who generally agree that repellents containing DEET, the chemical formally known as N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide, are the most effective. DEET is found in a number of sprays sold in retail stores. The NPR story includes a chart ranking their effectiveness ... ....

Widespread illegal mining in Colombia is 'linked to malaria outbreak'

Edit The Independent 01 May 2016
Colombia confirms over 3,100 cases of Zika virus in pregnant women 'Hundreds of dismembered bodies found in drain pipes ......
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