Zika virus causes a disease that is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito. It has been receiving a lot of media coverage after being tentatively linked to microcephaly, a neurological condition where a baby is born with an abnormally small head because the brain did not develop correctly. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is advising pregnant women to avoid travel to countries with known Zika virus transmission.
UTMB researchers Scott Weaver and Nikos Vasilakis have been contributing to numerous Zika virus news stories.
• Travels to Central and South America, Caribbean should heed warnings — Houston Chronicle, January 24, 2016
• Local doctors warn Austin patients about Zika virus — KVUE (ABC) Austin, January 21, 2016
•What is the Zika virus, and how afraid should we be? A scientist explains — Vox, January 21, 2016
• US adds more countries to ZIKA travel alert — CelebCafe, January 24, 2016
•Cape Verde plays down U.S. travel alert over Zika virus — You Don’t Know Football, January 25, 2016
• NYS health officials advise MDs to watch for Zika virus — MyTechBits.com, January 24, 2016
• Zika virus raises new worry about paralysis — Buenos Aires Herald, January 23, 2016. Also reported in The Albany Democrat Herald, Observer Today, Salem News, Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Minot Daily News, Health Medicine Network, Breitbart, Medical Xpress, WREX Rockford, Yahoo! India Finance and CNS News.
• United to refund travel to regions hit with Zika virus — Junior College, January 27, 2016
•Sex might spread Zika virus — Yahoo! Health, January 26, 2016
•Zika Virus: Two cases suggest it could be spread through sex — The New York Times, January 25, 2016
• Why the United States is so vulnerable to the alarming spread of Zika virus — The Washington Post, January 27, 2016
• Search for better Zika diagnostics kicks into overdrive — Becker’s Hospital Review, January 26, 2016