Zika

The new testing kit will take about 15 minutes to analyse blood samples for a key dengue protein

More than 120 pregnancies, or about 5 %, resulted in Zika-associated birth defects

Zika can cause brain defects such as microcephaly, a condition in which child's brain and skull are unusually small

This is the first Zika-linked microcephaly in Southeast Asia, says World Health Organisation

It is currently at the prototype stage, and Phoenix Molecular owns intellectual property in sample preparation

Sixteen pregnant women have been confirmed to have the virus in Singapore

Zika infections in pregnant women have been shown to cause microcephaly, a severe birth defect

Report comes after an outbreak of the disease that at first affected three dozen workers on a construction site

WHO sent teams of senior scientists to Brazil to assess the level of risk to athletes and spectators, says official

'The Brazilian strain of Zika virus harms health in ways that science has not observed before' experts

"Patient died of complications related to severe thrombocytopenia," US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said

They will also review progress in the development of Zika diagnostics and vaccines

Sexual transmission through both vaginal and anal sex is an emerging mode of Zika virus infection

Women who are pregnant are advised to avoid the more than 30 places in Latin America and the Caribbean

Zika is spreading rapidly in Puerto Rico and is expected to peak in late summer and early fall

The new case in Chile is that of a 46-year-old woman whose partner was infected while in Haiti

The app will provide the virtual diagnosis as well as information on preventing Zika

Zika virus is suspected of causing birth defects when it infects pregnant women

Aedes aegypti species blamed for transmitting Zika breeds in car tires, tin cans, dog bowls and cemetery flower vases

Zika virus, a mosquito-borne disease, has been declared a public health emergency of international concern by the WHO

The 28-year-old woman is hospitalized at the Pedro Kouri Tropical Medicine Institute in the capital Havana

The latest count represents an increase of 5,695 new cases of the mosquito-borne virus

Brazil is worst hit in the current Zika outbreak, which has spread to more than 30 countries and territories

Zika has been linked to microcephaly, a birth defect in which the infant is born with an abnormally small head

The aim is to gradually reduce, if not suppress, their population

Brazil is at the center of the Zika outbreak that has spread to more than 30 countries

The virus was detected in a 34-year-old man from Ganxian county in the eastern province of Jiangxi

The patients died after contracting the virus and developing a rare neurological disorder

Brazil's biggest retailer says supermarket sales of repellant were up 120 per cent in the first weeks of 2016

It is a precautionary measure to combat the mosquito-borne Zika virus

Airlines and hotel chains have said it is too early to tell if the Zika epidemic is affecting bookings

Tata Motors has in recent weeks been heavily promoting the small Zica

It was here in the Zika forest that the mosquito-borne Zika virus was first discovered in 1947

Zika is linked to a rise in cases of microcephaly, abnormally small heads and brains, in babies born to infected women

Chan calls for February 1 meeting to determine if the outbreak qualifies as international public health emergency

Punjab DG Health has been supervising operations to check epidemics and infectious diseases in the district.