How deadly is the Zika Virus?
Lifestyle | June 03, 2017 11:52 ISTAccording to World Health Organisation, people diagnosed with Zika virus should take plenty of rest, drink fluid and treat pain and fever with common medicines.
According to World Health Organisation, people diagnosed with Zika virus should take plenty of rest, drink fluid and treat pain and fever with common medicines.
Zika is a viral disease spread mainly by Aedes mosquitoes and unprotected sex.
Discovery of Zika patients in India might have created a panic among people, especially the pregnant women who are said to be more prone to the virus. But instead of panicking, here are few things you need to know.
All the three people who’ve been diagnosed with Zika have no-travel history to Zika-affected country.
However, the WHO did not recommend any travel or trade restriction to India based on the current information available.
Researchers including one of Indian origin have developed a smartphone-controlled, battery-operated diagnostic device claims to detect Zika, dengue and chikungunya within 30 minutes. The device, developed by the team at Sandia National Labs, part of
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday declared that Zika is no longer a world health emergency.
A recent research has found that a person contaminated with Zika is unlikely to get fever twice. According to the research, conducted by Stephen Higgs, director of the Biosecurity Research Institute at Kansas State University
Zika infections were "highly likely" to keep spreading across Asia, the World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Tuesday.
At least 21 Zika virus cases have been detected in capital Bangkok, authorities have announced. According to Wantanee Wattana, deputy permanent secretary for the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA), 21 patients' situation in the city's Sathorn
Two more Indians have been infected with Zika virus in Singapore, taking the total number of Indian nationals tested positive for the mosquito-borne disease in the city-state to 15, health officials said on Sunday. As
Trying to detect the future path of Zika virus infections, scientists believe that that 2.6 billion people living in parts of Asia and Africa could be at risk of infection, based on a new level
India’s Ministry of External Affairs today confirmed that 13 of its nationals had tested positive for the deadly Zika virus in Singapore.
Researchers have found some existing drug compounds – including one already used as a treatment for tapeworm infection in humans – that have the potential to both stop Zika from replicating in the body and
Singapore authorities confirmed on Sunday that 40 people have been infected locally by the Zika virus, but most have fully recovered. Singapore announced its first Zika infection in May, with the virus imported by a
In the first reported case of prolonged Zika infection in newborns, physicians have described the diagnosis of a Brazilian baby born with Zika infection in January 2016 who remained infected even two months and one
Rio Olympian and Indian long distance runner Sudha Singh, who was undergoing treatment at a private hospital here for a suspected Zika virus infection, has tested positive for swine flu and will be out of action for at least two months
Middle-distance runner Sudha Singh, who arrived from Rio on Saturday, is being treated for viral infection in an isolation room at a hospital here since Saturday. Besides dengue and malaria, the athlete is being investigated
Researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine have claimed to identify antibodies that protect against Zika virus infection in mice.
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