ZIKA

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has partnered up with nonprofit foundation FUNSALUD to launch a study that will examine the effects of Zika infection in infants and children living in Guatemala.

As researchers discover Chikungunya-carrying mosquitoes in Brazil, a new study analyzes the impact of the Zika virus on the area.

The CDC just released a study outlining areas where an increase of Aedes mosquitoes was observed in 2016. In addition, researchers report on Zika-related complications observed in 7 infants, postmortem.

A new CDC report has linked congenital Zika syndrome with dysphagia in 9 Brazilian infants.

Challenges to public health are never-ending and experts argue that budget cuts that will be made through the American Health Care Act (AHCA) will have dire consequences to how we can respond.

Superbugs, Zika, antibiotic development, C. difficile, and HIV are the article topics making up this week’s Top 5 articles.

In the most recent MMWR, the CDC released data indicating the risk of Zika congenital infection resulting into complications based on trimester of infection.

Research presented at the 2017 Annual Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) meeting examines the similarities between Congenital Rubella Syndrome and Congenital Zika Infection.

In case you missed them, here are our top 5 articles for the week of May 21, 2017.

After 3 individuals test positive for the mosquito-borne virus in Gujarat, WHO confirms that the Zika virus is currently circulating in the country.

Research published in Nature on May 24, suggests that the Zika virus has been circulating in the Americas silently for far longer than previously thought.

Researchers from Beaumont hospital have developed a Zika virus diagnostic test that yields quick results. In addition, a Zika vaccine may be coming our way, but perhaps not in the way we hoped.

Researchers from Stanford University use mechanistic models to predict the temperatures at which mosquitoes are likely to contract Zika and other arboviral diseases and transmit them to humans.

Due to a significant drop in new Zika cases, the Ministry of Health has declared the national emergency status over.

At the 2017 Annual EIS Conference, researchers presented findings from a prospective case-control study on acute Zika infection at 9 hospitals in Puerto Rico, as well as on a patient who was paralyzed due to Guillain-Barre Syndrome, unrelated to Zika infection.

In case you missed them, here are our top 5 articles for the week of April 30, 2017.

The CDC just released updated testing recommendations for asymptomatic pregnant women with possible exposure to the Zika virus.

Researchers may have discovered a way to prevent Zika, Dengue and Chikungunya viruses from replicating in human cells.

Jean-Paul Gonzalez, MD, PhD, Deputy Director, Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases (CEEZAD), Kansas State University, Adjunct Professor, Kansas State University, discusses the parallels between past Ebola outbreaks, and how they can help us manage the current Zika pandemic.

The NIH has developed a platform called SHERLOCK, capable of quickly detecting small amounts of nucleic acid sequences—and it’s cheap.

Robert Malone, MD, MS, CEO/CSO of Atheric Pharmaceuticals, LLC, discusses the benefits of repurposing drugs for emerging infectious diseases rather than going down the very long, costly road of developing new ones.

In case you missed them, here are our top 5 articles for the week of April 23, 2017.

Two studies published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Emerging Infectious Diseases journal have outlined just how local and travel-related Zika cases differ, as well as which testing method is most sensitive to Zika virus RNA.

The New England Journal of Medicine recently published two pieces on yellow fever. The first reports on the situation in the Americas, while the second recounts the case of a man from Angola who was found to be coinfected with yellow fever and Japanese encephalitis virus, although he reported no history of travel.

Adriano de Bernardi Schneider, MS, PhD Candidate, Contagion® Editorial Advisory Board Member, provides a brief snapshot into some of his work on mapping the evolution of the Zika virus.

Annelies Wilder-Smith, MD, PhD, professor at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine in Singapore, discusses the strain of Zika that hit Singapore in 2016.

Experts are arguing that the President’s focus on national security needs to include healthcare response, before it’s too late.

Researchers report that Zika virus RNA was isolated in a number of Aedes albopictus mosquitoes in Bahia, Brazil.

David A. Schwartz, MD, MS Hyg, FCAP, clinical professor of pathology at Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University, explains how congenital infection with Zika virus differs from congenital infection with other viruses.

Researchers from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and Instituto Evandro Chagas (IEC) have published their findings on the live-attenuated vaccine candidate in the journal Nature Medicine.