The virus is moving widely, across geographies ... We were on the ground during Ebola, Zika, the COVID-19 pandemic, and recently Marburg—plus, many outbreaks that never made the news because they were ...

Health officials are closely monitoring the spread of the Zika virus. WESH 2 News speaks with CDC officials about what to expect, and precautions that can be taken against contracting the virus.

The Zika virus, which has been found to cause severe birth defects, has spread across the Americas, prompting the World Health Organization to declare a global health emergency.

CDC virus expert resigns after RFK Jr.’s purge of vaccine advisers Fiona Havers, who oversaw CDC respiratory virus data, told colleagues she no longer had confidence the data would be used ...

The Zika virus is usually transmitted by forest mosquitoes, and infection causes the skin to turn red. Symptoms include rash, fever, conjunctival injection, and muscle aches.

Sometime next year, genetically modified mosquitoes will be released in the Florida Keys in an effort to combat persistent insect-borne diseases such as Dengue fever and the Zika virus. CDC says 1 ...

Fiona Havers, a physician considered a senior subject-matter expert on respiratory diseases and vaccines, led the CDC’s surveillance of hospitalizations for coronavirus and respiratory syncytial ...

That virus — clade 2.3.4.4b, genotype B3.13 — was studied to determine how transmissible it is, and the ways it spreads.

Apr. 14, 2025 — Like the dengue and Zika viruses, Oropouche virus causes a febrile illness. There are recent indications that infections during pregnancy can cause damage to unborn babies.

Mosquito control officials discovered a lone adult Aedes aegypti — known as “the yellow fever mosquito” — for the first time in Saginaw County.” Considered an invasive mosquito to North America, the ...

Most Arizonans share habitat with the mosquito that causes the Zika virus, whose possible link to babies born with small heads and brains in Brazil caused the World Health Organization to declare ...