By altering the metabolism of the skin, the Zika virus guarantees its own survival, resulting in turning humans into mosquito ...

There's still a lot that we still need to figure out about Zika. It's a virus that's been around since 1947, but the strain associated with the most recent outbreak and the one before that in ...

In pregnant women, however, there is a much graver risk of complications from Zika virus infection. In 2015 in Brazil, an explosive epidemic of a condition known as microcephaly was correlated with ...

have reported a surge in cases of microcephaly - which causes babies to be born with abnormally small heads - since the Zika outbreak was declared in the region last year. The virus is spread ...

Zika, a mosquito-borne virus first identified in 1947 in a Rhesus ... researchers became increasingly concerned with studying Zika after a major outbreak occurred in Brazil. The devastating ...

The mosquito-borne Zika virus is known for causing microcephaly, a birth defect in which abnormal brain development results in a smaller-than-expected head. A new study published Jan. 13 in mBio ...