Sentences with phrase «from zika»

In the face of a looming global public health crisis from the Zika virus, Congressional Republicans have not only failed to lead, they have proposed policies that would do more harm than good.

CFACT Senior Policy Advisor Paul Driessen shows how the blathering video shown at the Rio Olympics opening ceremony is replete with lies and distortions — and speculates that the intent was to refocus attention away from the Zika virus, polluted water, crime, and other bad news coming out of Rio and as usual to scare people into surrendering their freedoms.

As the name implies, it will reimburse you if you have to cancel your trip for any reason — any reason, from Zika fears to a bad hair day — but with great flexibility comes great restraints.

Best travel tip: If you're headed to the tropics, pack duct tape to seal gaps in windows and doors — it's just one of my tips of 12 Ways to Protect Yourself from Zika, Chikungunya and Dengue Virus.

Dr. Michael Paul has an intimate relationship with mosquitoes, who are responsible for everything from Zika in people to heartworm in dogs.

So far, no monkey or ape babies have been born with microcephaly from Zika.

Men returning from a Zika - infected area should refrain from having unprotected sex for at least two months (six months if they've had symptoms), or for all of a partner's pregnancy.

«We urgently need a safe and effective vaccine to protect people from Zika virus infection as the virus continues to spread,» said Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in a statement announcing the study.

«Even though the risk of infection from the Zika virus is considered low, it is a risk nonetheless and a risk I am unwilling to take.»

The people who said that they've done something to protect themselves from Zika in the past three months were asked what they have done.

The researchers observed changes in human small RNAs produced in hNPCs upon Zika infection, as well as in small RNAs directly generated from Zika virus.

New research from Washington University provides the first evidence of a human antibody capable of protecting fetuses from the Zika virus.

They have identified specific small RNAs from Zika virus that could impact brain development and lead to microcephaly, at least in mice.

«This paper is the first to publish whole genome data from Zika virus in Brazil.

And while a fetus is prone to more serious harm from Zika, it is unknown whether similar developmental problems could also occur in a child bitten by a virus - carrying mosquito, Levine said.

Just a single shot of either protects mice from the Zika virus.

«These studies clearly show us that the vaccine is able to generate antibodies that protect the mice from Zika infection.

The findings, which were published today in Cell, also demonstrated that Moderna's Zika mRNA vaccine protected the placenta and fetus from Zika virus - induced injury.

The findings also demonstrated that Moderna's Zika mRNA vaccine protected the placenta and fetus from Zika virus - induced injury.

«These are very promising findings and, as the first study to demonstrate protection from Zika in the pregnancy setting, are an important development in our efforts to combat Zika virus,» said Michael Diamond, M.D., Ph.D., Professor, Departments of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology, and Associate Director, Center for Human Immunology and Immunotherapy Program at Washington University School of Medicine, and a lead author on the Cell paper.

She then analyzed T cells isolated from Zika - infected mice and mapped which portions of the virus elicited a strong immune response.

In the meantime, artificially produced antibodies to EDE might protect pregnant women from Zika.

Agarwal says «fulfilling the mission» broadly would mean information from Zika diagnoses, for example, is flowing to the right public health official whether it's from patient - hospital encounters stored in a state health information exchange or a primary care setting when a patient presents for treatment or even when such cases are documented at a public health care service location.

Early signs suggest the fallout from Zika includes a rise in illegal and unsafe abortions throughout Brazil, Ecuador and Venezuela

«The whole world has been in urgent need of a serological method to distinguish dengue virus from Zika virus infections, and this the first to have such high sensitivity and specificity in dengue - endemic regions,» said Eva Harris, study co-author and UC Berkeley professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology at the School of Public Health.

Mice normally resist the Zika virus, so the team used animals engineered with a crippled version of an immune gene that naturally would protect them from Zika.

The antibody - based assay, developed by researchers at UC Berkeley and Humabs BioMed, a private biotechnology company, is a simple, cost - effective way to determine if a person's infection is from the Zika virus or another virus of the same family, such as dengue and West Nile viruses.

Called a DNA vaccine, it contains genetic snippets from a Zika virus strain that circulated recently in Brazil to elicit immune responses.

The inactivated virus vaccine also protected mice from Zika infection.

LNCC operates the largest supercomputer in Latin America, serving as a national facility for research projects that range from Zika virus genomics to climate change modeling.

Many countries across Africa and Asia - Pacific may be vulnerable to Zika virus outbreaks, with India, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Nigeria, Vietnam, Pakistan, and Bangladesh expected to be at greatest risk of Zika virus transmission due to a combination of high travel volumes from Zika affected areas in the Americas, local presence of mosquitos capable of transmitting Zika virus, suitable climatic conditions, large populations and / or limited health resources, according to a new modelling study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

Countries with large volumes of travellers arriving from Zika virus - affected areas of the Americas and large populations at risk include India (67422 travellers arriving per year; 1.2 billion residents in potential Zika transmission areas), China (238415 travellers; 242 million residents), Indonesia (13865 travellers; 197 million residents), the Philippines (35635 travellers; 70 million residents), and Thailand (29241 travellers; 59 million residents).

The findings offer the first evidence that an effective vaccine administered prior to pregnancy can protect vulnerable fetuses from Zika infection and resulting injury.

«Vaccines protect fetuses from Zika infection, mouse study shows: Mothers vaccinated prior to pregnancy bore young with no sign of virus.»

The findings offer evidence that an effective vaccine administered prior to pregnancy can protect vulnerable fetuses from Zika infection and resulting injury.

The article concludes that «the challenges currently faced by the Brazilian health system from the Zika virus epidemic, as well as the solutions being implemented to overcome some of these challenges, highlight actions that other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, with active transmission of Zika virus, should be considering.

The Centers for Disease Control say some travellers returning to the United States from Zika - affected areas have also been infected with the virus, which has the potential of allowing the virus to then spread locally.

The new candidate vaccine contains mRNAs encoding two key proteins from a Zika virus strain isolated in a 2013 outbreak.

The team's results may begin to answer an outstanding question from the Zika epidemic: Why have Zika - related microcephaly and other brain abnormalities been seen in areas hard - hit by outbreaks in the past few years but not in the decades following the virus's discovery in 1947?

«Following this research, we want patients who are suffering from Zika symptoms also to be aware of the cardiac symptoms because they might not connect the two,» Dr. Carta says.

One dose protects mice from Zika but may put people at greater risk of dengue.

A rapid, specific, sensitive, and inexpensive method has been developed that detects RNA from a Zika virus strain associated with the current outbreak.

Those mice actually die from Zika infection, making it difficult to study the natural transmission of the virus from father and mother to fetus and to assess the effect of this transmission on the newborns.»

If we can learn lessons from Zika's ability to cross the blood - brain barrier and target brain stem cells selectively, we could be holding the key to future treatments.»

At 1:30 p.m., Sen. Adriano Espaillat, NYC Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Travis Bassett; Dr. Juan Tapia - Mendoza, and local other local doctors and elected officials, will brief the community on what they need to know to protect themselves from Zika, corner of 135th street and Broadway in the lobby of Pediatrics 2000, Manhattan.

At 11 a.m., NYC Public Advocate Letitia James joins the state Nurses Association and Planned Parenthood to announce recommendations to protect New Yorkers from the Zika virus, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Until now, almost no one has had major infections from Zika.

Thousands of children in Brazil have been born with shrunken heads in the past year — a birth defect that some research suggests could result from Zika infection.

Lessons from Zika and HIV: Protecting Mothers and Babies from the Next Global Epidemic Symposium

From the Zika threat, to contaminated waters, to protesting police, to the uninhabitable athlete village, this year's event is surely one for the books.