Zika News
Two people have tested positive for Zika virus in Lucknow.
UP CM had assured people and asked them not to panic while reviewing the Zika virus situation.
UP CM Yogi Adityanath instructed officials to speed up sanitisation work amid rising cases of the Zika virus in Kanpur.
After COVID-19, the Zika virus' threat is looming over India. The virus was first reported in Kerala and Maharashtra and now in Uttar Pradesh. Here is all you need to know about the origin and spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
Around 120 people have tested positive for Zika virus in Rajasthan, state health minister Kalicharan Saraf said on Monday.
Most of the cases which have been reported are from Shastri Nagar area
After the rise of Zika virus and Dengue fever in Rajasthan and Himachal Pradesh, Telangana's Hyderabad saw a rise in cases of viral fever, dengue and influenza on Sunday.
The number of positive cases for Zika Virus rose to 51 in Jaipur's Rajasthan on Saturday.
At least 18 more people have tested positive for Zika virus in Rajasthan's Jaipur as of Friday.
Health minister JP Nadda, however, assured that there's no need to panic and the situation is under control.
The study, published in the journal PLOS Pathogens, describes the first comprehensive analysis of the Aedes aegypti midgut.
Brain damage was found in regions that generate new brain cells, and those that play a key role in memory and learning and contribute to brain health.
Although Zika was first identified more than 70 years ago, its ability to induce birth defects was not recognized until the massive 2015 South American epidemic, which sickened more than 1.5 million people.
Scientists inserted genes into the plasmid that encode two proteins found on the surface of the Zika virus.
Zika virus remains a major global health risk. In most adults, Zika causes mild flu-like symptoms.
The GLS-5700 vaccine is a synthetic DNA vaccine that contains the instructions for the host to mount an immune response against a specific Zika virus antigen.
Zika was first identified in 1947 in Uganda, and until its recent emergence in the Americas, was a little known one that sporadically causes mild infections.
It resembles a pregnancy test strip and contains antibodies that react to the presence of Zika or dengue virus, and gold nanoparticles that respond to the antibody reaction.
The test developed by researchers accurately diagnoses Zika and dengue and can tell the two mosquito-borne viruses apart.
Since dengue and Zika are related viruses, the researchers reasoned that an antibody that prevents dengue disease may do the same for Zika.
Glioblastoma affects 12,000 people per year in the United States, and was recently diagnosed in US Senator John McCain.
Loading...