When the Zika virus was first isolated from a Ugandan forest monkey in 1947 and found in mildly ill humans a few years later, it was hardly worth a mention in the annals of human disease. What a ...

The Zika virus can be transmitted through sex, which is a bit chilling if you think about it: Not only can the virus pass through sexual partners but those encounters could, in theory, result in ...

Zika. Zika. Zee-kah. You’ve heard about how this mosquito-borne virus is barreling through the southern Americas, namely Brazil, and how it’s potentially linked to microcephaly, a condition wherein ...

The development of a type of Zika vaccine that authorities had hoped to usher to the market has proven more challenging than some scientists and pharmaceutical companies had expected, people involved ...

Zika virus has killed a man in Puerto Rico. The man, in his 70s, is the first reported U.S. death from the virus, which is spreading across the Americas. Zika is not usually thought of as a ...

Zika is a virus that primarily spreads through infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and can cause serious birth defects in babies whose mothers were infected during pregnancy, the Centers for Disease ...

Images from Brazil of babies with undersized heads, a condition called microcephaly, are unsettling, and the surge in cases raises many questions about what the future may hold for these children, ...

While the Zika virus often causes disease without symptoms in adults, it has become notorious for its link to microcephaly-- a birth defect where infants have an abnormally small head. Women infected ...

Locally transmitted Zika in Texas? Officials in Texas have found a possible case of locally transmitted Zika in the state. CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook and CBS News medical ...

“It is now clear that the virus causes microcephaly,” CDC director says. — -- The Zika virus has been confirmed to cause a rare birth defect called microcephaly and other severe problems of the ...

Before Zika swept across most of Latin America and the Caribbean, the largest outbreak ever recorded had been in French Polynesia. Between 2013 and early 2014, researchers estimate nearly 20,000 ...

As the Zika virus continues to spread through the Americas—and with hundreds of imported cases here in the United States—here’s what every American needs to know about the virus and their risk. There ...