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Topic: Zika Virus

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
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Harvey, Irma and Zika

Christine Crudo Blackburn, Gerald W. Parker, Morten Wendelbo - The Conversation
Rescue boats fill a flooded street as flood victims are evacuated. (AP/David J. Phillip)

Hazards of Harvey

Neil S. Grigg - The Conversation
An Aedes Aegypti mosquito (Afp/getty Images)

New Zika Virus threat hovers

Shefali Luthra, Carmen Heredia Rodriguez - KFF Health News
An Aedes Aegypti mosquito (Afp/getty Images)

Ana B. Ibarra - KFF Health News
(AP Photo/Tanya Bindra, File)

Maureen Miller - The Conversation
(AP)

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
Barack Obama; Mitch McConnell (Reuters/Yuri Gripas/James Lawler Duggan/Photo montage by Salon)

Dispatches From The Condom War

Amanda Marcotte
Paul Ryan (Reuters/Aaron P. Bernstein)

The GOP's Zika paralysis

Robert Hennelly
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)

Christine Curry - The Conversation
Paul Ryan (AP/Cliff Owen)

The GOP Won't Fight Zika

Amanda Marcotte
Marsha Blackburn (AP/Alex Brandon/Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Photo montage by Salon)

Anti-Choice Witch Hunts

Amanda Marcotte
Pope Francis waves as he arrives in Paraguay, Sunday, July 12, 2015. (AP/Victor R. Caivano)

Zika & family planning

Valerie Tarico
((AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo))

Will Carless - GlobalPost
This 2006 photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito in the process of acquiring a blood meal from a human host. Scientists believe the species originated in Africa, but came to the Americas on slave ships. It's continued to spread through shipping and airplanes. Now it's found through much of the world. (James Gathany/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP) (AP/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via AP)

America's big Zika challenge

David Dayen
Brazilian television ad for Prudence Condoms

Zika is a new ballgame

Valerie Tarico
In this Jan. 30, 2016 photo, Solange Ferreira holds Jose Wesley outside their house in Bonito, Pernambuco state, Brazil. (AP/Felipe Dana)

Women ignored in Zika scare

Eesha Pandit

Patrice Waite