Author: Sarah Spencer

From KSAT February 10, 2019 SAN ANTONIO – A groundbreaking new study could soon take the guessing out of Zika treatment. The Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio is working with a team at…

From NPR February 7, 2019 Splat! A lucky strike and the telltale red splodge that your nightly tormentor has sucked its last blood vessel. Staring at the mess on the…

From the Campbell Patch February 7, 2019 SAN JOSE, CA –Heads up Santa Clara County residents. The Vector Control District has started its annual program Thursday to prevent the onslaught…

From the New Atlas February 6, 2019 Scientists in Australia are looking at some pretty creative ways to tackle the Zika virus, which continues to pose a risk to millions…

From Stanford Medicine February 6, 2019 The Zika virus, which made headlines in 2016 following an outbreak in South America, is transmitted by mosquitos and can cause serious birth defects and neurological…

From EurekAlert! February 4, 2019 During the Zika virus outbreak of 2015-16, public health officials scrambled to contain the epidemic and curb the pathogen’s devastating effects on pregnant women. At…

From the Stanford Blood Center January 30, 2019 TRACKING THE EPIDEMIC In 2016, the world was in the midst of a Zika outbreak, with the largest occurring in 2016 in…

From The Hindu January 30, 2019 Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi have found a drug hydroxychloroquine or HCQ, that is already being used for treating malaria to…

From Texas Public Radio January 29, 2019 A Texas Biomedical Research Institute scientist is helping develop a test for the Zika virus that has been called “a lab on a chip.” The new technology…

From The Malibu Times January 27, 2019 Barbara Edelston Yaroslavsky, wife of longtime LA County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, died in late December. Yaroslavsky, 71, was herself a longtime community leader,…

From EDF.org January 24, 2019 This year will be like no other for me: I’ll be without my dad. His recent death in Yolo County, California, intersected with my work…

From the Miami Herald January 22, 2019 As scientists continue to study the relatively novel Zika virus, researchers have found that children with a history of prior dengue infection had…

From KYMA January 21, 2019 PHOENIX (AP) – A new study suggests that a strain of the West Nile virus is going to remain in Arizona’s most populous county for the…

From Health24 January 21, 2019 Ultrasounds and MRIs during pregnancy and after birth can detect most Zika-related brain abnormalities in infants, researchers report. Foetal MRIs and ultrasound If a woman…

From Science News January 16, 2019 Molecules made by bacteria keep mosquitoes at bay. The compounds are a newfound potential stand-in for DEET, a ubiquitous chemical used in most commercially…

From Penn State News January 14, 2019 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A cellular protein that interacts with invading viruses appears to help enable the infection process of the Zika virus,…

From Digital Trends January 12, 2019 A new development in molecular biology is a step towards enabling mobile and instant diagnosis of viruses like Ebola or Zika in the field. The Oxford Nanopore MinION device can…

From the Signal Tribune January 11, 2019 Even though the annoyance of mosquitoes never seems to go away, residents finally have good news in the war against the buzzing pests.…

From the Medical News Bulletin January 9, 2019 Researchers from the United States utilized ribosome display technology to generate six antibodies that could diagnose and treat Zika virus. Zika virus…

From Smarter Travel January 7, 2019 On a recent trip to Southeast Asia, I saw signs warning about Zika transmission and realized that it had been over a year since…

From the New York Times January 7, 2019 The mosquito-borne virus that causes Rift Valley fever may severely injure human fetuses if contracted by mothers during pregnancy, according to new…

From EurekAlert! January 4, 2019 After collecting data and comparing it with every known mammal and bird species on Earth, scientists from the University of California, Davis, have identified wildlife…

From the Long Beach Post January 3, 2019 For the first time in nearly a decade, Long Beach reported no cases of West Nile virus in 2018, health officials said…

From Lancaster Online January 3, 2019 Almost three years since the Zika virus burst onto the international news, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention show zero Pennsylvania cases…

From Science News January 3, 2019 When an outbreak of a viral hemorrhagic fever hit Nigeria in 2018, scientists were ready: They were already in the country testing new disease-tracking…

From the Pacific Daily News December 28, 2018 Residents are encouraged to do their part in keeping a mosquito borne illness from spreading. A small number of cases of dengue…

From the Pasadena Star News December 27, 2018 The wife of former Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky had been seriously ill since contracting West Nile virus weeks ago. LOS…

From Malaymail December 18, 2018 RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 18 — When doctors told her that the six-month-old foetus she was carrying had severe brain damage caused by the Zika…

From the Santa Cruz Patch December 17, 2018 SANTA CRUZ COUNTY, CA — Santa Cruz County Mosquito and Vector Control officials are warning residents to be on the lookout for…

From Pasadena Now December 17, 2018 City authorities and staff from the San Gabriel Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District identified a total of 93 dirty swimming pools in Pasadena…

From the Tampa Bay Times December 11, 2018 As the end of the year approaches, Florida has reported 93 cases of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in 2018, according to numbers…

From ANewsCafe.com December 6, 2018 Today we check in with Peter Bonkrude, District Manager of the Shasta Mosquito and Vector Control District, an independent special district that provides public health mosquito…

From the Miami Herald December 5, 2018 If you’re planning to spend Christmas in Cuba, take plenty of insect repellent with you and stay away from areas where the mosquito Aedes…

From MedicalXpress December 4, 2018 Researchers at the University of Hawaii medical school have successfully developed a vaccine candidate for the Zika virus, showing that it is effective in protecting…

From the CDC November 30, 2018 Haemaphysalis longicornis is a tick indigenous to eastern Asia and an important vector of human and animal disease agents, resulting in such outcomes as human…

From ASTMH November 29, 2018 Reported cases of vector-borne diseases in the United States have more than tripled since 2004, characterized by steadily increasing incidence of tick-borne diseases and sporadic…

From Science Daily November 29, 2018 Researchers have generated six Zika virus antibodies that could be used to test for and possibly treat a mosquito-borne disease that has infected more…

From Bloomberg November 28, 2018 Silicon Valley researchers are attacking flying bloodsuckers in California’s Fresno County. It’s the first salvo in an unlikely war for Google parent Alphabet Inc.: eradicating mosquito-borne…

From Radiology Business November 28, 2018 In a cohort of 82 pregnant women with the Zika virus (ZIKV) infection, prenatal ultrasound (US) was able to detect all fetal brain abnormalities…