Pune has recorded 66 cases of Zika virus infections within the last two months, with four reported deaths due to comorbidities. Notably, 26...

Zika Virus (Google Trends): Pune faces a rising Zika virus threat with several recent cases, including two pregnant women. Health authoriti...

A recent study suggests that individuals previously infected with Zika may face an increased risk of developing severe dengue and requiring...

The girl, who had other comorbidities, complained of fever and headache since August 20 and received treatment from a private hospital, the...

Zika virus, dengue and chikungunya are spread by the bite of Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes.

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

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...

Microcephaly is a birth defect where a baby's head is smaller than expected when compared to those of the same sex and age.

The findings also show that Zika virus is present in the blood very early during infection and remains in some tissues for a long time.

Eye infection raises the possibility that people could acquire Zika infection through contact with tears from infected people.

The elderly victim, had an underlying health condition, died in late June after traveling to a country where the Zika virus is active.

An ongoing epidemic of Zika virus began in early 2015 in Brazil and with it new evidence emerged that Zika virus infection of mothers durin...

Pregnant women with Zika during first trimester have a risk of up to 13 per cent that their infant will be born with the microcephaly defec...

In turn, hyper-activated TLR3 turns off genes that stem cells need to specialise into brain cells and turns on genes that trigger cell suic...

'Any regions within the virus structure unique to Zika have the potential to explain differences in how a virus is transmitted and how it m...