Sentences with phrase «after zika»

«Do they show efficacy or protective activity, if we transfer them to the mice, either prior to or after Zika infection?

This technique comes next after Zika detection and has a primary goal of differentiating between strains efficiently, even if they differ by only one nucleotide.

«In this paper, the authors calculate that Guillain - Barré syndrome occurred at about the same frequency after Zika virus infections as is seen with other infections.

Picture C shows a dish with hundreds of neurospheres while Picture D shows how few are left after Zika.

Other important findings in the Nature Medicine article include: • Zika RNA was detected in blood plasma as early as one day after Zika virus infection.

After Zika virus infection, fetal type I interferon signaling is responsible for abnormal placental development and fetal resorption

The researchers compared their new mouse model with young mice that have immune system defects and are known to die several days after Zika infection.

Nearly 94 percent of all pregnancies remained viable when a mock infection was introduced during the first trimester, while the viability of fetuses after Zika infection was reduced, regardless of which strain was used.

Brain cancer stem cells (left) are killed by Zika virus infection (image at right shows cells after Zika treatment).

A single dose of a human antibody called ZIKV - 117 can protect mice from death after Zika infection — and shield mouse fetuses from the virus's damaging effects, researchers report November 7 in Nature.

«While our study was in mice — and with the caveat that we don't yet know whether Zika has the same effect in men — it does suggest that men might face low testosterone levels and low sperm counts after Zika infection, affecting their fertility.»

Microcephaly cases in 2016 reached a high point in Colombia in July, about 24 weeks after Zika virus infections peaked there.

Type I interferons instigate fetal demise after Zika virus infection.

After Zika takes over the neural stem cells «it turns them into a virus factory,» he said.

• Zika RNA was detected in blood plasma as early as one day after Zika virus infection.

• Zika RNA cleared from blood plasma and urine within 10 days, but viral RNA was detectable in saliva and seminal fluids until at least three weeks after Zika virus was no longer present in the blood.

«Shortly after Zika rose to prominence, we were able to track these conversations very quickly using our social media monitoring method,» said Prof. Broniatowski.

And to be sure, after Zika, will come another global pathogenic threat — one, that public health experts worry, may do an even better job of outsmarting and overwhelming us.

It took but 14 months after Zika's first detection in Brazil for the virus to spread through Latin America and the Caribbean to Florida.

Not exact matches

While Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has generally downplayed the seriousness of the public health crisis, Clinton yesterday toured a Miami neighborhood health clinic near ground zero of the Zika outbreak and admonished lawmakers for having adjourned until after Labor Day without resolving a partisan impasse over the urgently needed spending bill.

The news comes just over a week after the World Health Organization declared Zika was no longer a «public health emergency,» indicating that the disease was now a threat it would be fighting long term, like malaria or yellow fever.

This appears to be the first US case of a baby born with microcephaly, a condition in which the brain is abnormally small, after having a Zika infection.

In these instances, patients have brought the virus back to the U.S. after visiting Zika - prone regions.

A day after the CDC warned pregnant women against traveling to one neighborhood in Miami after learning the Zika virus is spreading there via mosquitoes, consumers looking to cancel their flights into the city may encounter difficulty.

Airline bookings to parts of Latin America and the Caribbean slipped globally after the CDC issued a similar travel warning for the region because of Zika.

After taking samples and conducting brain scans, the researchers found that 41 percent of mothers of babies with microcephaly tested positive for Zika infection in blood or cerebrospinal fluid samples, compared with none of those whose babies did not have microcephaly.

Federal health officials on Friday warned pregnant women not to travel to trendy Miami Beach after Florida confirmed that the mosquito - borne Zika virus was active in the popular tourist destination.

Workers from the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department kill mosquitoes outside a construction site in Hong Kong on Aug. 26, 2016, after the first case of Zika was confirmed in the city.

Just a few months after the 2015 outbreak of Ebola was contained, another virus — called Zika — commanded the public stage.

After several years of challenges, including Hurricane Irma and Zika, Miami's tourism industry is looking forward to positive growth in 2018 — and the possible start of direct flights to Asia.

In a bit of positive news, a new study by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) shows fewer dangerous effects for babies and children who contract Zika after they are born.

A women contemplating pregnancy, who has recently traveled to an area with local Zika transmission, should consult her healthcare provider after returning.

However, to a pregnancy after loss mom, the journey to a baby is filled with worry, and Zika was just one more item to be concerned about.

Scientific concern is focused on women who become infected while pregnant and those who develop a temporary form of paralysis after exposure to the Zika virus.

With the threat of mosquito - borne Zika virus on the horizon, state health officials are going after the winged carriers as an important prevention technique.

After a hectic response to Zika last year, the city and state health departments now say they are more confident about addressing the virus as mosquitoes return to the state in April.

Lawmakers returning to Washington after a seven - week break picked up right where they left off — feuding about legislation to battle the mosquito - borne Zika virus and deadlocked over the defense budget.

Traces of Zika virus typically linger in semen no longer than three months after symptoms show up, a new study on the virus» staying power in bodily fluids reveals.

The World Health Organization did not declare the epidemic a public health emergency until February 2016, after babies of Zika - infected mothers began to be born with severe neurological problems.

Roughly a year after Brazilian doctors and researchers first suspected a link between a spate of alarming birth defects and the Zika virus, a cadre of potential vaccines are now headed for testing in humans.

To determine whether 25HC could protect against Zika - induced microcephaly, the researchers gave pregnant mice 25HC or placebo before and for five days after their embryos were infected with Zika virus.

Less than a year after the World Health Organization declared Zika is no longer a public health emergency, the virus seems to have fallen from public consciousness, at least outside of heavily affected areas.

After Kobylinski returned home in December 2009 and told Foy about the encounter, they decided to send the samples to Haddow, who asked his UTMB colleague Robert Tesh, a veteran virologist, to run a battery of tests, including one for the Zika virus.

The 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games were held not long after the height of the Zika epidemic.

It's very unlikely that she was infected by a bite by a mosquito that first bit her husband; the three tropical Aedes mosquito species known to transmit Zika don't live in northern Colorado, and moreover, the virus has to complete a 2 - week life cycle within the insect before it can infect the next human; Foy's wife fell ill just 9 days after his return.

Healthy adults mounted strong immune responses after receiving an investigational whole inactivated Zika virus vaccine, according to interim analyses of three Phase 1, placebo - controlled, double - blind trials conducted at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), and Saint Louis University School of Medicine.

In Brazil, thousands of babies have been born with microcephaly after their mothers were infected with Zika virus.

In both cases, virus neutralization tests indicated that the vaccine induced high levels of antibodies that block Zika infection — levels that peaked after several weeks and thereafter remained high enough to be protective, potentially for years.

The Zika virus reproduces in the vaginal tissue of pregnant mice several days after infection, according to a study by Yale researchers.

The first live - attenuated Zika vaccine still in the development stage completely protected mice against the virus after a single vaccination dose, according to new research from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Instituto Evandro Chagas at the Ministry of Health in Brazil.