Thank you for reading as, over the last 17 months, we’ve tracked the developing science, the progress toward a vaccine, and the many questions still unanswered about Zika virus. Still ...

A: Zika appeared for the first time in Uganda in 1947, but experts considered it a minor-league virus for decades. Health officials detected the current outbreak in Brazil in 2015. Featured Weekly Ad ...

Zika virus infection in utero may cause additional birth defects. — -- Researchers are learning more about the Zika virus and how it affects the development of infants in utero -- and what ...

You're probably concerned about Zika – but perhaps you're not that concerned. Compared to that other big, scary virus of recent years, Zika may seem relatively tame. During 2014's devastating ...

Some sperm banks and fertility societies are taking steps to keep the Zika virus out of their supplies of donor sperm to avoid infecting women trying to get pregnant. Zika virus, which has spread ...

The Zika virus, thought to be responsible for a surge in birth defects in Brazil, has been found inside the abnormally small brain of an aborted fetus at roughly 29 weeks of gestation, a team of ...

Zika virus is a flavivirus, part of the same family as yellow fever, West Nile, chikungunya and dengue fever. Zika is primarily transmitted through the bite of an infected Aedes aegypti mosquito.

Infection with Zika virus in pregnancy can lead to neurological disorders, fetal abnormalities and fetal death. Until now, how the virus manages to cross the placenta, which nurtures the developing ...

Scientists solve the mystery of how Zika virus takes over key immune system cells. New findings shed light on how to stop the virus from spreading. Zika virus has a trick up its sleeve.