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CDC Warns Zika Is 'Scarier Than We Initially Thought', Deadly Virus Attacks Central Nervous Systems
2016-04-12 15:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: In a press conference, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that the Zika virus seems to be scarier than what they initially thought. This is after a Brazilian team of scientists discovered that it is possible for the Zika virus to trigger an immune attack on the central nervous system of adults. The mosquito-borne Zika virus outbreak happened in May 2015 in Brazil and Colombia. It quickly spread to more than 13 countries, according to the World Health Organization (WHO)....
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'Scarier than we initially thought': CDC sounds warning on Zika virus
2016-04-12 01:16:21| Biotech - Topix.net
She said the virus has been linked to a broader array of birth defects throughout a longer period of pregnancy. The geography range of the mosquitoes transmitting the virus also reaches farther northward, and now includes 30 states.
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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.
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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