Month: February 2016

Politics is one of the biggest threats facing the global campaign to eradicate malaria, said a U.S. official tackling the disease, which kills nearly half a million people a year, including 300,000 children under age 5. Though some 214 million malaria cases are still reported annually, disease incidence has declined 37 percent over the last … Continue reading “Politics biggest threat to malaria effort”

New research has found evidence of the Zika virus in the brain tissue of a fetus with microcephaly, providing support for a link between the mosquito-borne disease and a birth defect that causes small heads and underdeveloped brains. According to an editorial that accompanied the study, both published online February 10, 2016 in The New … Continue reading “Link between Zika virus and microcephaly strengthened”