Exciting news on the Zika virus front! Researchers have now found that mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia pipientis are at a reduced risk to become infected with Zika virus. The prevalence of Zika virus infection was significantly reduced in mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria. Determination of Zika virus infection in mosquitoes was accomplished by quantifying virus…Continue reading Zika does not like Wolbachia spp
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Zika virus outbreak in Brazil
Some facts about the current Zika virus ‘outbreak’ in Brazil: A few deaths have been reported in people who had been diagnosed with dengue fever and who died due to worsening symptoms. These patients were shown post-mortem to be infected with Zika virus. Worsening of dengue-fever-like symptoms hence will need to be treated as such…Continue reading Zika virus outbreak in Brazil