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Viruses at the Movies

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Radiation used to be Hollywood’s go-to plot device. Now, viruses explain everything from vampires to the zombie apocalypse — but that’s not what really scares public health experts.

Close-up of a mosquito Aedes aegypti feeding on blood

Zika is no longer a public health emergency, WHO says

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Three-month-old Jesus, photographed on Oct. 5 in Guarenas, Venezuela, was born with microcephaly

Zika’s million-dollar question: Where are the birth defects?

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Zika virus

US officials are rushing to develop a Zika vaccine by 2017

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A worker fogs the corridor

Singapore is dealing with an outbreak of locally transmitted Zika infections

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Franci Machado brings her four-year-old daughter to work every day because she can't afford childcare. She says if she died because she couldn't get chemotherapy to treat her cancer no one would take care of her two children.

Women in Nicaragua fight for the right to get abortions that could save their lives

Health

In Nicaragua, abortion is illegal, even if a woman’s life is at risk. But some abortion rights advocates claim the government is quietly turning a blind eye to certain abortions, including in the case of women infected with the Zika virus.In Nicaragua, abortion is illegal, even if a woman’s life is at risk. But some abortion rights advocates claim the government is quietly turning a blind eye to certain abortions, including in the case of women infected with the Zika virus.

Treating Zika

I’m an obstetrician treating women with Zika. This is what it’s like.

Health

“I didn’t expect that early in my career as an OB-GYN, I would be caught in the middle of another new disease outbreak — Zika.””I didn’t expect that early in my career as an OB-GYN, I would be caught in the middle of another new disease outbreak — Zika.”

How worried should Olympic visitors be about Zika?

Health

Zika transmission is down during Brazil’s winter, but US health officials say it’s still unsafe for pregnant women to visit.
Zika transmission is down during Brazil’s winter, but US health officials say it’s still unsafe for pregnant women to visit.

Brazil now has doubts that Zika alone causes birth defects

Health

Just when many Olympians are arriving — and others are canceling over Zika fears — Brazilian doctors are questioning the theory that the mosquito-borne virus caused an increase in microcephaly cases.

Health centers in New York are providing information about the Zika virus to New Yorkers traveling home to the Dominican Republic. People who've traveled to the DR represent more than half of the Zika cases in New York.

Dominicans in New York are planning summer visits home. That means Zika planning.

Health

New York health clinics are urging Dominicans in New Yorker who are going home for the summer to take precautions against the Zika virus.

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