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Topic: Zika

Doctor with Oropouche virus positive blood sample. (Fania Witardiana / Getty Images)

Doctors raise alarm about “sloth fever"

Troy Farah
The Aedes mosquito is a known vector for several viruses, including West Nile virus, yellow fever virus, dengue virus, chikungunya virus, and Zika virus. (Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Zika makes human skin "mosquito magnet"

Nicole Karlis
Mosquito in old book with mosquito swatter and blood stain (Getty Images/Nikola Nastasic)

Mosquito-borne illness reaches U.S. soil

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Patient arriving at medical clinic (Getty Images/FG Trade)

Climate change may bring more pandemics

Matthew Rozsa
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Biochemist in hazmat suit holding petri dish with biomaterial (Getty Images/Harbucks)

Zika virus is quick to mutate

Matthew Rozsa
Rochelle dos Santos embraces her daughter, who was born with microcephaly in 2016 after dos Santos contracted Zika during her pregnancy in midwest Brazil. (Ueslei Marcelina for Undark)

The forgotten children affected by Zika

Mariana Lenharo - Undark
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GMO mosquitoes to be released in Keys

Taylor White - Undark
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Risks of genetically modified mosquitoes

Natalie Kofler, Françoise Baylis, Graham Dellaire, Landon J Getz - The Conversation
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Invasive mosquitoes on the move

Harriet Blair Rowan - KFF Health News
Christine Jelinek, a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University, works alongside a tray of vials containing cerebral spinal fluid in Baltimore. Dr. Akhilesh Pandey, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University, said his research analyzes both adult and fetal tissue, and by identifying which proteins are present, he can get clues that could be used to help detect cancer in adults earlier. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

Trump's tissue ban may lead to pandemics

Nicole Karlis
Anchorage, Alaska (Getty/Chilkoot)

Climate change pushing disease to Alaska

Eric Holthaus - Grist
(AP Photo/Tanya Bindra, File)

Media falls short in reporting epidemics

Yotam Ophir - The Conversation
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This summer might be full of mosquitoes

Heath MacMillan - The Conversation
A microbiologist works with bacteria at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (AP/Branden Camp)

GOP stinginess could lead to a pandemic

Rachel Leah
(AP)

Harvey, Irma and Zika

Christine Crudo Blackburn, Gerald W. Parker, Morten Wendelbo - The Conversation
Registered nurse Keene Roadman, dressed in personal protective equipment, and registered nurse Fred Serafin, demonstrates the proper disposal of the personal protective equipment, after the simulated treatment of a Ebola patient, to doctors and nurses who are part of the core care team that would treat Ebola patients, during a training class at the Rush University Medical Center, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2014, in Chicago. () (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

global health? American suffer

Gerald W. Parker, Andrew Natsios, Christine Crudo Blackburn - The Conversation
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An Aedes Aegypti mosquito (Afp/getty Images)

Ana B. Ibarra - KFF Health News
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We're not out of the woods yet

Sharon Isern - The Conversation
In this photo provided ​by The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a healthy volunteer receiving the NIAID Zika virus investigational DNA vaccine as part of an early-stage trial to test the vaccine's safety and immunogenicity. This is the first administration of this vaccine in a human. (​The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases via AP) (AP)

Robert Bednarczyk - The Conversation
A mosquito control inspector sprays pesticide to kill mosquitos in Miami Beach, Florida, August 24, 2016. (Getty/Joe Raedle)

GOP gets a pass on Zika

Daniel Denvir
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FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2016, file photo, a female Aedes aegypti mosquito acquires a blood meal on the arm of a researcher at the Biomedical Sciences Institute in the Sao Paulo's University in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The CDC is working with Florida health officials to investigate what could be the first Zika infection from a mosquito bite in the continental United States. They said Tuesday, July 19, 2016, lab tests confirm a person in the Miami area is infected with the Zika virus, and there may not be any connection to someone traveling outside the country. (AP Photo/Andre Penner, File) (AP)

Zika on steroids

Valerie Tarico - Alternet
In this photo provided ​by The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases shows a healthy volunteer receiving the NIAID Zika virus investigational DNA vaccine as part of an early-stage trial to test the vaccine's safety and immunogenicity. This is the first administration of this vaccine in a human. (​The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases via AP) (AP)

Scott Eric Kaufman
Paul Ryan (Reuters/Aaron P. Bernstein)

The GOP's Zika paralysis

Robert Hennelly
(AP/Andre Penner)

Zika: 5 things to remember

Eesha Pandit
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