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(Photo: Ian Smith) CONNECT TWEET LINKEDIN GOOGLE+ PINTEREST COLLEGE STATION, Texas – According to the Texas Department of State and Health Services, there have been 237 cases of Zika in the state and three cases in Brazos County. But a new app developed by professors at Texas A&M strives to keep that number from growing. … Read more
Microcephaly Fact sheetUpdated 14 October 2016 Key facts Microcephaly is a condition where a baby is born with a small head or the head stops growing after birth. Microcephaly is a rare condition. One baby in several thousand is born with microcephaly. The most reliable way to assess whether a baby has microcephaly is to … Read more
Revealed: Zika’s life-threatening birth defects you DIDN’T know about The mosquito-borne Zika virus can lead to extensive birth defects that go beyond microcephaly, a Brazilian study suggests. Researchers studied 11 babies diagnosed with Zika and found they had a range of neurological impairments including small skulls and brains. Many also had an underdeveloped cerebellum, the … Read more
A Miami-Dade County mosquito control inspector, sprays pesticide in Miami Beach, Florida. The Zika virus is carried by Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images New Zika research released on Friday has found that the virus may spread sexually from a man to a woman even if the man had no symptoms of Zika … Read more
Everyone fears of being struck down by a contagious and deadly disease. The Ebola scare has taken its toll from various populations. The last thing anyone needs to hear is for another disease to cause death. That is why the mildest of diseases cause alarm to many. One of the latest diseases that have … Read more