Zika

Close-up of a mosquito Aedes aegypti feeding on blood

Zika is no longer a public health emergency, WHO says

Still, the virus remains "a highly significant and long term problem," according to the world health body.

Zika is no longer a public health emergency, WHO says
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?

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

Viruses at the Movies

Viruses at the Movies
A worker fogs the corridor

Singapore is dealing with an outbreak of locally transmitted Zika infections

Singapore is dealing with an outbreak of locally transmitted Zika infections
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

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

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

"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'm an obstetrician treating women with Zika. This is what it's like.
Balance beam practice

How worried should Olympic visitors be about Zika?

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

How worried should Olympic visitors be about Zika?

Brazil now has doubts that Zika alone causes birth defects

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.

Brazil now has doubts that Zika alone causes birth defects
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.

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

Dominicans in New York are planning summer visits home. That means Zika planning.
Christ the Redeemer state overlooking Rio

The absurdly low chance of bringing Zika back home from Rio

Relax, Olympians and Rio-bound fans: August is a bad time for the mosquitos that transmit Zika. Researchers estimate only 1 to 16 of the half-million people attending will show symptoms of Zika — and 3 to 37 travelers headed home will be infected.

The absurdly low chance of bringing Zika back home from Rio
Ianka Mikaelle Barbosa, 18, with Sophia, 18 days old, who was born with microcephaly, at her home in Campina Grande, Brazil.

A new bill aims to make Brazil's abortion law even tougher

As Zika spreads, a Brazilian lawmaker is pushing for harsher jail sentences for abortions in cases of microcephaly.

A new bill aims to make Brazil's abortion law even tougher
A scientist displays Aedes aegypti mosquitoes inside the International Atomic Energy Agency's insect pest control laboratory, Austria.

Zika’s advantage in Brazil’s cities? People aren’t scared of mosquitoes.

In Brazil, mosquitoes are a fact of life. But in São Paulo, many residents think mosquitoes won't bother them in the city.

Zika’s advantage in Brazil’s cities? People aren’t scared of mosquitoes.
Nadja Cristina Gomes Bezerra

Brazil's microcephaly outbreak captured in portraits

Last week, Across Women's Lives photographer Anne Bailey spent time at a rehabilitation clinic in Recife, Brazil, for babies with microcephaly. She took portraits of a few of them with their parents.

Brazil's microcephaly outbreak captured in portraits
Germana Soares is shown holding her child next to a doctor holding a black and white striped card.

'We have a child with microcephaly, and we're happy'

Germana Soares' three-month-old son Guilherme has microcephaly. But she's determined to give him a normal life.

'We have a child with microcephaly, and we're happy'
Elaine Marques, 29 (center left) smiles at Germana Soares, 24, at a group birthday party for babies born with microcephaly in Recife, Brazil.

How Brazil's favorite app is helping doctors and parents cope with microcephaly

Parents of children with microcephaly in Brazil are now finding each other via the social media platform WhatsApp. Brazilians doctors and scientists also credit the platform for helping them quickly understand the scope of the burgeoning epidemic of birth defects.

How Brazil's favorite app is helping doctors and parents cope with microcephaly