The first-ever Zika virus case in the state was reported in Pune in July 2021. Now, a seven-year-old girl has been found infected with Zika...

Zika is a mosquito-borne virus that spreads through the bite of an infected Aedes species of mosquito, which bites during the day, symptoms...

In a statement, the ministry said the multidisciplinary team comprising an entomologist, public health specialists and gynaecologist drawn ...

Elaborating on the measures taken by the government, Mandaviya said the Union Ministry of Health has prepared and widely disseminated Zika ...

Following reports of Zika Virus Disease (ZVD) spreading in Kerala, the health and family welfare department in Karnataka stepped up vector-...

Ensuring availability of logistics such as adulticide and larvicide at all levels, up to villages, are among the intervention measures that...

A senior Health Ministry official said the outbreak so far is localised and no other cases have been reported from any other state.

The virus, transmitted through the aedes aegypti mosquito, causes fever, skin rashes, conjunctivitis, muscle and joint pain.

According to a Health Ministry official, 29 people have so far been tested positive for the disease in Rajasthan.

According to the World Health Organization's classification scheme on the prevalence of Zika virus, India is in category 2, indicating ongo...

Zika virus disease is caused by a virus primarily transmitted to people through the bite of an infected mosquito from the Aedes genus, main...

WHO said two additional cases were then identified through the Acute Febrile Illness (AFI) and the Antenatal clinic (ANC) surveillance.

Zika virus has infected at least 116 people, including an infant, in the US, according to a leading American public health institute.

To deal with Zika, Swaminathan said, testing of people is being done in the country at present, besides looking at the issue of developing ...

In view of the outbreak of Zika virus, the govt has issued travel advisory urging pregnant women to defer or cancel their travel to the aff...

Health Minister J P Nadda said during Question Hour that "till date, this disease (zika) is not reported from India."

The intensified efforts of the government follow the World Health Organization (WHO) declaring Zika an international public health emergenc...