An curved arrow pointing right. The Zika virus was discovered almost 60 years ago, but only recently has it caught the world's attention by sweeping through South and Central America and causing ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Brazil's top health official said on Monday that the Zika virus outbreak is proving to be ...

Two years on from the peak of the Zika epidemic, the disease continues to have a tragic impact on people’s lives. In Brazil, more than 3,000 children ... Limiting and controlling the Zika virus is ...

A rare virus known as ‘Sloth Fever’ is spreading to Europe after killing at least two people in Brazil. Oropouche virus ...

Zika virus, first identified in 1947 in Uganda, had been thought to produce a rare and mild disease until it suddenly emerged in Brazil in 2015 and spread explosively through South America, Central ...

This past year, the Zika virus has emerged as global problem ... the 2013-2014 outbreak and more recently in northeastern Brazil," the WHO said in a statement. "An extensive review of the ...

We’ve known for more than a century that a mosquito’s bite can pass on brutal disease: Zika is the ... mosquito-spread monkey virus infecting people in northwestern Brazil.