Sentences with phrase «on zika»
For the most up to date information on Zika, where it is, and how to prevent it, go to the CDC.
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The following travel insurance providers have not released an official position statement on the Zika virus as of February 12, 2016:
For more information on the Zika Travel Notices, please visit http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/zika-travel-information.
Official position statements from Squaremouth's travel insurance providers on the Zika virus.
I would, however, wait this trip out until there is more clarity on the Zika virus outbreak.
Also on February 2, the World Health Organization (WHO) downgraded the Bahamas from a Category 2 to a Category 3 on its Zika Virus (ZIKV) Classification Table, signifying that there have been no new cases of Zika identified in the area or from travelers in the past 12 months, according to the CTO.
Joining Peter Greenberg on the show will be Nuria Sebazco, TV Reporter for Telemundo Puerto Rico, with a front line report on the Zika virus and its impact on tourism.
Always read the CDC alerts and updates on Zika.
Roger Dow, President and CEO of the U.S. Travel Association, weighs in on the Zika virus as well as the continuing battle of «open skies» and how Gulf airlines such as Emirates, Qatar, and Etihad and now, even Turkish Airways, have the ability to fly nonstop almost anywhere in the world.
In the United States, the CDC has been keeping a close eye on Zika, and revising its recommendation for pregnant women accordingly.
And on Aug. 9, researchers in Brazil also reported on Zika's possible links to serious deformities of joints in the arms and legs of newborns, a condition called arthrogryposis.
In the third study, researchers conducted ultrasound and fetal MRIs on Zika - infected pregnant women at different stages of pregnancy.
on of the WHO on the Zika outbreak, and is part of an interdisciplinary research team funded by the Wellcome Trust to develop and refine guidance for addressing this and other public health crises.
About 15 companies are working on Zika vaccines, most in the initial stages, according to the World Health Organization.
Efforts were further stalled last week when the U.S. Senate split along party lines and failed to pass a $ 1.1 billion spending bill that included a significant boost in money for researchers around the country — many of whom have dropped other work to focus on Zika.
Recent work has contributed to the characterization of antibodies that inhibit Chikungunya virus infection and current work is focused on Zika virus.
This Factsheet has information on Zika infection, complications and prevention.
It is commendable that the authors posted their initial results online before publication, to aid other researchers working on Zika.»
«The paper by Faria and colleagues in Science improves our understanding on the Zika virus epidemic by comparing the genome sequences of 7 viruses from Brazil to other Zika viruses obtained a year or more ago from the Pacific Islands.
Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and elsewhere have been collecting data on Zika and how it is impacting families.
The SMC also produced a Factsheet on the Zika virus.
«With the recent increase in federal funding to support research on the Zika virus, we are optimistic that we will be able to combat this epidemic swiftly.»
«You may have to follow children for five years or longer to tell whether there is cognitive impairment in their development,» says Aliota, whose research has focused on Zika's spread in Colombia.
«If this is the case, measuring the viral load on a Zika - infected pregnant woman on a weekly or biweekly basis could provide an indication for the likely degree of damage to the fetus,» O'Connor says.
They used the forebrain, the first mini-brain with the six layers of brain cell types found in the human cortex, for the current study on Zika.
Congress will have the last word on how much money ultimately is spent on Zika.
«A tool to support public health decisions on Zika virus predicts most planned interventions to be cost - effective.»
In the preclinical study, WRAIR and the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center tested two Zika virus vaccine candidates: a DNA vaccine developed at Harvard based on a Zika virus strain isolated in Brazil, and a purified inactivated virus vaccine developed at WRAIR based on a Zika virus strain isolated in Puerto Rico.
«Family impact of congenital Zika syndrome likely to last a lifetime: Supplement in Pediatrics synthesizes research on Zika.»
«We were way behind the curve on Zika.
Although the World Health Organization ended its global health emergency on Zika last November, the virus could still make a comeback as temperatures get warmer and mosquito season ramps up.
Health Systems & Reform presents the article «Zika Virus and Health Systems in Brazil: From Unknown to a Menace,» a commentary by Professor Marcia C. Castro, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, on the Zika Virus epidemic in Brazil and the Americas.
Additionally, scientists at the FMEL are applying for research funding to work on the Zika virus, Rey said.
Haddow is doing more research on Zika as well.
«Everyone was concentrating on Zika and ignoring that there could be other infections caused by mosquito bites.
The flexibility of the model design means that as new information becomes available on Zika dynamics, epidemiology and biology it can be updated to help public health officials assess situational awareness, according to the researchers
His research on Zika virus and others like it is focused on how the viruses evolve and adapt to their hosts, including mosquitoes and humans.
Landrum and her colleagues demonstrated the effect experimentally and reported the results in a 2017 paper in the Journal of Risk Research entitled «Culturally Antagonistic Memes and the Zika Virus: An Experimental Test,» in which participants read a news story on Zika public health risks that was linked to either climate change or immigration.
Esty said lawmakers were discussing setting up a permanent emergency fund that would available for projects like working on a Zika vaccine, though she was optimistic that Obama's funding request would be approved without being tied to a larger, partisan battle over the federal budget.
At 3 p.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will deliver remarks at a public health roundtable with leading clinical experts on the Zika Virus, The COW, City Hall, Manhattan.
Countries including the U.K., Australia and Taiwan have issued travel advisories for tourists to Singapore on Zika virus fears.
Inovio began work on a Zika vaccine in the fourth quarter of 2015, when it also began testing in animals.
Not exact matches
Development of a Zika vaccine is still ongoing (despite the effort running low on funds).
«These findings suggest low level transmission of Zika virus and new cases may occur in the future,» the WHO said in the statement on its website.
On Wednesday, the CDC added Palau to its list of countries and territories with local transmission of the Zika virus.
The bugs are now spreading Zika locally in Miami, so some Americans on the US mainland have to start worrying about that virus, too, in addition to the others mosquitoes spread (in varying degrees) here already: dengue, chikungunya, and West Nile.
But Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and other Democratic leaders say the bill is unacceptable in its present form, including a ban on federal funding for Planned Parenthood in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory in the Caribbean that has reported nearly 2,000 cases of Zika infection.
To stop Zika's spread, a company called Oxitec is planning on expanding its genetically engineered mosquito project to try to rid areas in Brazil of the bug at the heart of the problem: the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
The World Health Organization (WHO) declared on Friday that the Zika virus and related neurological complications no longer constitute an emergency.
There is no word yet on whether Bti has been effective, but Puerto Rico was put under a state of emergency in August with the number of Zika cases on the island now at more than 15,000.