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Zika testing in blood donations: FDA announces revised guidance

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Today the FDA announced the availability of a revised final guidance: “Revised Recommendations for Reducing the Risk of Zika Virus Transmission by Blood and Blood Components.” This revised guidance...

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Pennsylvania budget includes increased funding to battle Lyme, Zika and West Nile virus

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Governor Tom Wolf bolstered funding to protect Pennsylvanians from Lyme disease, Zika Virus, and West Nile Virus as part of the recently signed budget. Increases to both the Department of Environmental...

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GeoVax Awarded NIH Grant for Novel Zika Vaccine

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Biotechnology company, GeoVax Labs, Inc announced this week that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has awarded the Company...

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Zika virus infection on fetal health: Marmosets may be an important animal model

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New research shows small, New World monkeys called marmosets may be an important animal model for emerging viruses with the potential for harmful effects on fetuses. Establishing animal models for emerging...

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A Zika vaccine could virtually eliminate prenatal infections: Study

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A Zika vaccine could have a substantial effect on mitigating and preventing future Zika virus outbreaks. Through a combination of direct protection and indirect reduction of transmissions, virtual elimination...

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New Zika blood test extends the window of accurate detection from weeks to months after the onset of infection

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Diagnosis of Zika infection is complex. Molecular tests for exposure are only reliable in the first two to three weeks after infection while the virus is circulating in the bloodstream. Antibody tests...

Researchers at NYU College of Dentistry are developing a test for Zika virus that uses saliva to identify diagnostic markers of the virus in a fraction of the time of current tests. Image/NYU/Sapna Parikh

Zika rapid test that uses saliva to identify diagnostic markers of the virus being developed by NYU researchers

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Researchers at New York University College of Dentistry (NYU Dentistry), in collaboration with Rheonix, Inc. (Ithaca, NY), are developing a novel test for Zika virus that uses saliva to identify diagnostic...

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Zika brain damage may go undetected in pregnancy

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Zika virus may cause significant damage to the fetal brain even when the baby’s head size is normal, according to a new animal study led by researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine...

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Zika vaccine candidate receives FDA Fast Track designation: Takeda announces

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Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited announced Monday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Fast Track designation to TAK-426, Takeda’s purified, inactivated, alum-adjuvanted,...

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Zika immune response: Type 1 interferons can also harm the placenta and fetal development

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The same proteins that mount a potent immune response to Zika viral infection can also harm the placenta and fetal development, according to a Yale-led study published in Science Immunology. Zika researchers...