Five-year-old girl from the Kolar district in Karnataka has tested positive for the ZIKA virus. WHO has declared Zika-related microcephaly ...

"Zika virus is something which is something like a priority virus for which both preventive measures have to be taken. There are efforts no...

First discovered in 1947, the mosquito-borne virus Zika virus reached epidemic proportions in Brazil in 2015, when thousands of babies were...

Zika virus is spread by Aedes aegypti — the same mosquito that is also responsible for causing dengue and chikungunya. The virus is conside...

ICMR will undertake phase-II trial of the vaccine to establish the efficacy and safety of the vaccine along with its adverse effects.

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.

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

Indian scientists had even stored a vial of the pathogen, ICMR Director-General Soumya Swaminathan said.

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

WHO urged Southeast Asian countries and India to strengthen surveillance and take preventive measures against Zika virus.

The Government issued guidelines on Zika virus disease including travel advisory urging pregnant women to defer travel to affected countrie...

WHO estimates there could be up to 4 million cases of Zika in the Americas in the next year, but no recommendations were made to restrict t...

Stating that there is not a single case of Zika virus, suspected of causing serious birth defects, in India, the Centre said it will come o...

With Zika virus cases being reported from South America and the US, the Centre decided to constitute a technical group to monitor the situa...

The Zika virus is "spreading explosively" in the Americas and can infect upto four million people, the WHO warned yesterday.