Sentences with phrase «over zika»

Concern over the Zika virus is not a covered reason to cancel your cruise on standard Trip Cancellation policies.

Concern over the Zika virus is not a covered reason to cancel a trip under typical cancellation coverage.

MONTREAL — Three of Canada's largest airlines are allowing passengers to change bookings to destinations in Central and South America as well as parts of the Caribbean amid concern over the Zika virus.

One of the world's top golfers has opted out of the Olympics due to health concerns over Zika.

She says her data also suggest that once people get over a Zika infection they might not get another for quite a long time.

The World Health Organization recently declared an international public health emergency over the Zika virus, a mosquito - borne virus that emerged early last year in Brazil and has since spread rapidly throughout Latin America.

Scientific American editors Mark Fischetti, Dina Maron and Seth Fletcher talk about the info they picked up at the just - concluded annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C. Subjects covered include gravitational waves, whether there's really a war on science, the growing concern over Zika virus, sea level rise and advances in artificial intelligence.

Possible links to birth defects recently heightened concern over Zika, which is spread primarily by mosquito bites.

Obama returned from his Martha's Vineyard vacation yesterday, ready for a busy fall season and more battles with Congress over Zika funding, the federal budget and $ 400 million the administration paid Iran this year for the never - completed sale of military equipment.

Concern over the Zika virus will cut short Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh's satellite - camp tour.

They also heighten concerns over Zika's spread in the continental United States.

Gov. Scott had urged public calm, even as he and Sen. Marco Rubio (R - FL) pleaded with the federal government to provide more resources and called on Ryan and McConnell to summon lawmakers into a special session to break the impasse over the Zika funding bill.

Not exact matches

Zika, which is transmitted mainly by mosquitoes, has been spreading around the Americas over the past year, and is now reported in a neighborhood in Miami.

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.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported over 4,200 Zika cases in US states, and over 180 locally acquired cases, which until Monday were only reported in Florida.

Experts both inside and outside the government say concerns over naled are overblown, especially since it's one of the few options left to prevent the spread of Zika.

And that means, over time, a diminished population of the pests which carry Zika and other pathogens.

The Zika virus, which is mainly transmitted by mosquitoes, has been spreading around the Americas and parts of Asia over the past year.

Political analysts are divided over the potential fallout from the Zika crisis this fall.

Zika, which is transmitted mainly by mosquitoes, has been spreading around the Americas over the last year.

CDC Director Tom Frieden says pregnant women all over the South should protect themselves against mosquito bites because of the risk of Zika.

Having treated over a dozen cases already, Dr. Christine Curry, University of Miami, describes what it is like to treat pregnant women with Zika.

As for safety issues such as crime and the recent concerns over the mosquito - induced virus Zika, Airbnb says it has been active in keeping both its hosts and guests well - informed.

«We have been informed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health that one of our students who traveled abroad over the winter break has tested positive for the Zika virus.

We're talking with concerned moms as well as a medical officer from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to learn how Zika is impacting families all over the world.

Over this summer, mosquitos started infecting people with Zika in parts of southern Florida.

If you've been watching the news lately, you have probably heard the growing concern over the spread of the Zika virus.

The Pope also said the use of contraception could be justified in regions hit by the Zika virus, a stance that could reignite a debate over the church's prohibition of the use of condoms to stop the spread of the AIDS virus.

Republicans counter that they have put forward their own $ 1.1 billion Zika bill but that Senate Democrats have blocked it over provisions related to Planned Parenthood and cuts to ObamaCare and anti-Ebola programs.

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.

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.

The Zika virus is currently spreading in Central and South America; over one million people have become infected since spring 2015.

Growing concerns about a Zika — autoimmune disease link are casting a shadow over vaccine development

The picture of Zika - linked hazards has come into harsher focus over the past couple months.

The team also looked at changes in the genetic sequence of the Zika NS1 protein over time, noted David L. Akey, a research scientist in Smith's lab and the study's other lead author.

During the September Congressional fight over how much to provide and whether to offset it, Mulvaney posted a Facebook update in which he questioned the relationship between Zika and birth defects, and asked whether «we really need government - funded research at all» given this alleged uncertainty.

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

Add to this mix Latin culture: «A lot of places where Zika is common the people are incredibly social, and they go all over the city to see family and friends,» he says, while in the United States, «people often come home and go inside and there's air conditioning and they watch TV.»

So Zika immunity might wane over time, perhaps leading to reinfections, says pediatrician and microbiologist Peter Hotez of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

The Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that are believed to spread Zika virus can be found all over the southern United States.

«Zika is not over.

The Zika epidemic could be over in three years — but by then up to 93.4 million people may have been infected, including 1.65 million women of childbearing age, and tens of thousands of babies could be affected.

«We have documented the full clinical spectrum of acute Zika virus infection in 12 % of all such cases imported to Canada from the Americas over a 1 - year period, including adverse fetal and neurologic outcomes, as well as sexual transmission,» write the authors.

«Political pitfalls in handling ebola may carry over to zika.»

The spread of Zika virus has reignited debate over engineered extinctions for «pest» species.

But the findings were enough for the paper's authors to call for further study of the issue in men who have contracted Zika to determine whether the virus affects the male reproductive tract over time.

And progress over spending bills — including the Zika supplemental funding, the fate of which is still to be determined [Sept. 30 update: Congress has approved $ 1.1 billion in Zika funding as part of its continuing resolution]-- has been marred by policy riders on a wide range of topics from both parties in both chambers.

Even as the Zika virus becomes more prevalent — the Centers for Disease Control reports that the number of U.S. infants born with microcephaly and other birth defects is 20 times over the normal rate — researchers are still trying to fully pin down the identifying consequences of the viral infection.

In our lab, we adapted the technology and tools we'd established over the last four years working with other viruses to begin investigating the biology of Zika virus.»