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More than 2,600 pregnant women on the island have tested positive for Zika. While the number of confirmed cases of fetal abnormalities has been small, officials are concerned about long-term effects.
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A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found some of the babies didn't show symptoms of microcephaly for months. NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks to the CDC's Dr. Denise Jamieson.
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But it's too early to say whether the epidemic isn't as bad as the agency first predicted back in February.
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The World Health Organization announced it no longer considers the Zika virus a global emergency.But that doesn’t mean the threat of the mosquito-borne…
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Scientists are racing to create a vaccine. The latest effort being tested uses inactivated virus, a technique that has been used successfully to fight other diseases, and human volunteers.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now urges pregnant women to "consider postponing travel to all parts of Miami-Dade County." Zika is on the way to becoming an endemic disease in the U.S.
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An exceptionally wet summer and extra warm temperatures this fall have created an ideal environment for mosquitoes to breed. Health officials say the…
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But they'll have to wait a while. The portion of the $394 million Congress allocated to help pregnant women find out more quickly if they have Zika isn't expected to get to strained labs until 2017.
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Men who may have Zika should wait at least six months before having unprotected sex with partners trying to conceive, regardless of whether the men ever developed any symptoms, the CDC now says.
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And there's another mystery. Why was the father suffering from such a severe case that he eventually died?