Very much like the Zika virus, the WHO declared that Ebola is no longer an issue of global emergency. The virus affected areas in Western Africa specifically, among which Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone registered the most cases.

The Zika virus is being spread by mosquitos in Cuba, so travelers are being told to bring bug spray to protect themselves. Suzanne Carlson, owner of Carlson Maritime Travel in Tarpon Springs, says visitors should also bring extra to share with locals ...

Adre du Plessis, director of the Children's National Health System's Fetal Medicine Institute in Washington says people should continue to take precautions if traveling to affected areas even though the virus isn't front and center in the news anymore.

(WDRB) -- The state of Indiana is about to get a boost in the fight against the Zika virus. The state is getting nearly $300,000 in federal money to fight the spread of it.

Before the virus overwhelmed Puerto Rico, Zika already lurked in Keishla Mojica's home in Caguas. First her partner, John Rodríguez, 23, became infected.

University of Hawaii scientists' finding adds to evidence linking the virus and severe fetal abnormalities.

A baby was born in North Jersey with the Zika virus, a girl jumped 30 feet to safety from a burning building, and five high school students on a trip were hospitalized after their school bus was hit by a tractor-trailer.

According to the World Health Organization, the Turks and Caicos Islands are just one of 65 countries affected at the time of writing by the mosquito-borne Zika virus. If infected, a pregnant woman can transmit the virus to her fetus, potentially ...

More than half of adult women of reproductive age in Brazil have actively tried to avoid pregnancy because of the Zika virus epidemic, according to a survey carried out there. Brazil has confirmed far more malformations of the brain in babies born to ...

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine ( JABSOM ) scientists have discovered that severe birth defects related to infection with the Zika virus ( ZIKV ) occurred much earlier than in 2016, when the connection was first made ...

Creative researchers are now applying gene editing to tackle everything from HIV to animals on the brink of extinction.

Given the current concerns of Zika virus, Dorchester decided to try something different. It marked a departure from Dorchester County's usual ground-based efforts.

FUTURISTIC warheads laced with deadly diseases such as the Zika virus and Ebola could wipe out swathes of humanity if they fall into terrorists' hands, it is ...

For those traveling to an area with Zika, the California Department of Public Health recommends taking appropriate precautions for avoiding mosquito bites during the day and at night.

The race for a Zika vaccine, one of the most pressing priorities in global health, is at full throttle. More than a dozen companies and government institutions are working to unlock the secrets of the virus, and a vaccine could be available as early as ...

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes harboring parasitic Zika virus (ZIKV) are the primary transmitters of virus to humans, potentially causing catastrophic congenital microcephaly in babies born to women bitten by infected mosquitoes.

Guangzhou, China (CNN) Zhiyong Xi is a man on a mission. He wants to rid China -- and potentially the world -- of mosquitoes, specifically the ones that carry devastating diseases like Zika and dengue. And he's doing it in the classic style of good ...