Health officials in Rio de Janeiro kicked off a new health campaign on Tuesday to reinforce the alert tone to municipalities and the public to combat the mosquito, Aedes aegypti, and the viruses it...

The Secretariat of Health Surveillance (SVS) of the Brazil Ministry of Health now puts the total suspected cases of microcephaly at 1,761 identified in 422 municipalities in 14 Brazilian states. In addition,...

In response to the current Zika virus outbreak in Brazil and the surge of microcephaly cases in the northeast, São Paulo health officials want to test all pregnant women in the state for Zika virus. According...

With greater than 1,200 microcephaly cases reported in Brazil as of Saturday, a dramatic increase over the typical year and many questions yet unanswered, concern among the health community and public...

The spread of Zika virus in Latin America and the associated news of the suspected effects of the mosquito borne virus has been an important topic in this part of the world and we have been following it...

The number of microcephaly cases in Brazil has skyrocketed in the past few days as the Brazilian Health Ministry (computer translated) put the tally as of Nov. 28 at 1,248 suspected cases. Cases of the congenital...

A state of emergency has been declared in northeast Brazil’s Pernambuco state due to the proliferation of the viruses, dengue, Zika and chikungunya in the region, all transmitted by the Aedes aegypti...

In a follow-up to the surge of microcephaly cases in northeast Brazil and the source of the massive increase in cases, Brazil health officials believe that have confirmed the relationship between the neurological...

More than 2 million dengue fever cases have been reported in the Western hemisphere through mid-November, according to the Pan American Health Organization, and three quarters of the cases are from Brazil. 1,500,000...

In an update on the massive increases of the condition, microcephaly, in northeast Brazil, Brazilian health officials now put the tally at 739 suspected cases of microcephaly, identified in 160 municipalities...