Infection with Zika virus in pregnancy can lead to neurological disorders, fetal abnormalities and fetal death. Until now, how the virus manages to cross the placenta, which nurtures the developing ...

This research comes as many mosquito-borne viruses are spreading rapidly. Zika virus and dengue virus are very close relatives. Both are mosquito-borne flaviviruses, and both specialize in infecting a ...

Zika virus was first identified in Uganda in 1947 in a Rhesus macaque monkey. Sporadic human infections were detected across Africa and Asia from the 1960s to the 1980s. Since 2007 outbreaks of Zika ...

A new study reveals the biological secret to the Zika virus's infectious success: Zika uses host cells' own 'self-care' system of clearing away useless molecules to suppress the host proteins that the ...

Zoonotic viruses certainly got the world's attention with the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. But viruses have been emerging from animal hosts to infect humans for hundreds of years or longer, and they will ...

Researchers in the United States have for the first time deliberately infected people with Zika virus, a breakthrough that could help advance our understanding of the disease and accelerate efforts to ...

The island of Oahu has at least one confirmed case of the mosquito-borne virus, which can also be transmitted from a pregnant woman to her fetus Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. Her ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) has confirmed a travel-related ...

Zika virus and dengue virus are very close relatives. Both are mosquito-borne flaviviruses, and both specialize in infecting a host's dendritic cells. But a study in Nature Communications, led by ...

While identical twins often share a fate, fraternal twins typically don’t, a divergence that offers clues to researchers. But one case is confounding these expectations. By Pam Belluck and Tania ...

Zika virus is a cause for concern. The first death from Zika virus in the contiguous United States has now been reported, and we have already seen the impacts of the illness on people in Central and ...