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Experts gather at CDC for Zika summit

2016-04-02 02:17:26| Biotech - Topix.net

"Our biggest challenges are speed and scale," CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said to experts from across the nation attending the Zika Action Plan Summit in Atlanta on Friday. The daylong gathering convened exactly 10 weeks after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sounded the alarm on the Zika virus by issuing its first travel advisory.

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Inside the CDC lab that first found Zika in fetal tissue

2016-04-01 22:58:23| Biotech - Topix.net

In December, a lab at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received samples of brain tissue from two children who died within a day of birth and fetal tissue from two first-trimester miscarriages. It's not uncommon for the infectious disease pathology lab at the CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases to be searching samples for something unknown.

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Spectrum Brands Inc. Donates Products To Battle Zika

2016-04-01 16:59:00| Happi Breaking News

Sending 55,000 units of mosquito repellent for US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.

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CDC expands range of Zika mosquito into parts of Northeast

2016-03-31 01:26:56| Biotech - Topix.net

This image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday, March 30, 2016 shows a map of the United States with an estimated range of the Aedes aegypti mosquito for 2016 indicated in blue. On Wednesday, federal health officials said the mosquitoes, including the Aedes aegypti, that can transmit the Zika virus may live in a broader swath of the U.S. than previously thought _ but that doesn't mean they'll cause disease here.

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California confirms first case of sexually acquired Zika virus

2016-03-26 01:21:42| Biotech - Topix.net

This 2006 photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito in the process of acquiring a blood meal from a human host. This mosquito, also known as the yellow fever mosquito, can transmit the Zika virus.

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