Sentences with phrase «by zika»

Just a week ago, Republican leaders tanked a Zika emergency funding bill that would have helped get family planning services to areas most impacted by Zika, such as Puerto Rico.

Just a week ago, Republican leaders tanked a Zika emergency funding bill that intentionally targeted the ability of family planning providers to provide emergency relief to their patients, especially in areas most impacted by Zika such as Puerto Rico.

If you become pregnant after you have returned home from a covered trip to a destination affected by the Zika virus, unfortunately, your travel insurance policy would not cover post-trip treatment or expenses.

Travelers who purchase a policy may have coverage for the following benefits if they become infected by the Zika virus.

Some travel insurance companies are treating illnesses caused by the Zika virus as any other illness contracted while traveling, in that policyholders could still be covered for emergency medical care, emergency medical evacuation, and trip interruption benefits.

At least 20,000 infected by Zika virus in Colombia Women account for 63.6 percent of the cases, of whom at least 2,000 are pregnant.

All aircraft coming from areas affected by Zika virus transmission and areas where the Aedes aegypti carrier is present

Up to now, only nine deaths directly caused by Zika infection have been confirmed in adults, the doctors noted in their letter.

Scientists are still in the early stages of understanding the full breadth of the health problems that are caused by Zika.

That news came just a day after radiologists in Boston and Brazil published scans showing the wide range of birth defects that can occur in babies affected by the Zika virus.

Brazil is the country hit hardest by Zika, with thousands of cases of microcephaly reported so far.

The news comes a day after radiologists in Boston and Brazil published scans showing the wide range of birth defects that can occur in babies affected by the Zika virus.

Most of the would - be visitors to Florida seem undeterred by the Zika news.

«The defects caused by Zika are not always obvious at birth,» she noted.

Conclusions and Relevance Although the full spectrum of adverse reproductive outcomes caused by Zika virus infection is not yet determined, a distinctive phenotype — the congenital Zika syndrome — has emerged.

Case Definitions for Birth Defects Potentially Related to Zika Virus Infection During Pregnancy and Nationally Reported by Zika Pregnancy Registries and Monitored and Nationally Reported by Zika Birth Defects Surveillance

Experts have been warning that the kind of brain damage wreaked by the Zika virus could result in vision and hearing loss.

Family planning and contraception are a key strategy in reducing pregnancies affected by Zika, according to the CDC.

«We are also launching further studies to determine whether children who have microcephaly born to mothers infected by the Zika virus is the tip of the iceberg of what we could see in damaging effects on the brain and other developmental problems.»

It would be interesting to assess whether the antibodies induced by these Zika vaccine types increase infection by dengue viruses.

The next group of pictures shows more details about how the structure of neurospheres changed six days after being infected by Zika.

«It's important for us to show in a lab setting what people have expected in humans — that you clear viremia (infection by the Zika virus) within a week, and you are protected from future infections by the same virus.»

Brazilians show that the infection by Zika virus kills glioblastoma, one of the most common and aggressive kinds of malignant brain tumour in adults.

However, nobody really understands the range of outcomes for children that are affected by Zika virus infections during pregnancy.

It's inexpensive, generally available in the countries most affected by Zika and poses no risk to pregnancy.

«We have been working for three years to develop a better research model of brain development, and it's fortunate we can now use this one to shed light on the major public health crisis posed by Zika infections,» says Hongjun Song, Ph.D., professor of neurology and neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine's Institute for Cell Engineering.

In a quickly executed study that reflects the global public health threat posed by Zika, the researchers compared Zika's effect on cells known as cortical neural progenitor cells to two other cell types: induced pluripotent stem cells and immature neurons.

Source: Brown, Akey, et al., Nature Structural and Molecular Biology.ANN ARBOR — Researchers have revealed the molecular structure of a protein produced by the Zika virus that is thought to be involved in the virus's reproduction and its interaction with a host's immune system.

A University of Michigan - led team has revealed the molecular structure of a protein produced by the Zika virus that is thought to be involved in the virus's reproduction and its interaction with the host's immune system.

But I aim high: I target an immune gene that, I theorize, could lead to insights into reducing the harm done by Zika virus.

In subsequent tests using an immunodeficient mouse model infected by Zika, intravenous injections of sofosbuvir significantly reduced viral loads in blood serum compared to a placebo group.

«This suggests that one, the drug was well - tolerated by the Zika - infected pregnant mice and two, more importantly, that it was able to arrest Zika replication in vivo and stop transmission from mother to fetus,» said Muotri.

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

With mathematical modelling and sociodemographic data alongside the laboratory values, the scientists used a multidisciplinary approach to elucidate the speed of virus spread, areas most affected by Zika and the link to malformations in newborns.

Because digoxin and other cardiac glycosides have been shown to induce cancer cell death, the researchers concluded that infection by Zika triggered synthesis of the molecule in glioblastoma cells and that this phenomenon is probably one of the factors that lead to neuronal cell death.

To identify the main compounds (metabolites) produced by glioblastoma cells during infection by Zika, the researchers analyzed the cells using matrix - assisted laser desorption / ionization mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI - MSI).

«These findings provide new insight into the mechanisms and timing of the brain disruption caused by Zika infection, and the sequence of developmental anomalies that may occur,» said del Campo, who also serves as a medical geneticist at Rady Children's Hospital - San Diego.

Previous research conducted recently in Brazil and elsewhere points to increased mortality rates for human neural progenitor cells (hNPCs) infected by Zika virus, as well as growth inhibition and morphological abnormalities.

She also advises against nonessential travel to areas affected by Zika, including South and Central America, and recommends checking the CDC website for the latest updates when planning a trip.

RTI and the Altino Ventura Foundation are currently examining the health and development outcomes of infants most severely affected by the Zika virus in Recife, Brazil.

Recently, dengue virus emerged as a prime suspect because it shares many genetic and structural characteristics with ZIKV and is endemic in most of the regions affected by Zika's global spread.

A brain organoid infected by Zika virus at 28 days old is severely stunted two weeks later (right) compared with a healthy organoid of the same age (left).

The researchers found that fibroblasts and Hofbauer cells were susceptible to infection by Zika virus in isolated cultures.

«Thus, it is tempting to speculate that the alterations induced by Zika virus on the host cytoskeleton might be connected to the underlying physio - pathological mechanisms that link congenital Zika virus infections to microcephaly and neurodegenerative disorders.»

Scouring the web and social media sites for data, and the formation of multi-disciplinary scientific teams offers a window onto the quickly moving and novel approaches being used to tackle the public health threat posed by the Zika virus.

Researchers have revealed the molecular structure of a protein produced by the Zika virus that is thought to be involved in the virus's reproduction and its interaction with a host's immune system.

The fetal disease caused by Zika virus could soon have a new name: Zika virus congenital syndrome.

Using human fetal «mini-brains» grown in 3 - D cultures, scientists determined that a specific protein produced by the Zika virus changes the properties of neural stem cells in the developing brain of an infected fetus, potentially causing microcephaly in newborns (Ki - Jun Yoon, abstract 103.06, see attached summary).

In an effort to create a more precise diagnostic, the MIT team set out to find antibodies that would interact exclusively with NS1 protein produced by the Zika virus, as well as antibodies specific to NS1 from each of the four different strains of the Dengue virus.

The researchers tested whether pifithrins, compounds identified as inhibitors of p53, can protect neural cells from being killed by Zika infection.