A Stanford study shows Hsp70 protein inhibitors can protect mice from Zika virus without developing drug resistance, demonstrating their clinical potential.
New research examines how Zika viruses enter cells and shows that their behavior is different than that of some related viruses.
When the Zika crisis erupted last year, U.S. blood bank officials began to worry: What if the virus were to infiltrate the blood supply, as …
Mosquitoes continue to spread devastating diseases such as malaria, West Nile virus, dengue fever and Zika virus throughout the world. There are no medications or …
By now it is well known that infection by the mosquito-spread Zika virus can cause devastating birth defects. Most notably, affected infants can have abnormally small …
Zika's effects on pregnant women, quite rightly, have grabbed most media attention. But the virus can also have other serious consequences such as Guillain-Barré syndrome, which …
As summer inches closer, growing mosquito populations and numbers of vacationers traveling South pose an increased threat of Zika virus transmission inside the continental United …
Stanford pediatrician and researcher Desiree LeBeaud, MD, has been quite busy lately. Outside of her clinical and research responsibilities, LaBeaud has been called on extensively …
The Zika virus has gotten a lot of press in recent months. As the suspected culprit for an unusual increase in microcephaly in Brazil's newborns, …
An op-ed co-authored by global-health physician Michele Barry, MD, calls attention today to alarming parallels between the outbreaks of Ebola and Zika. In the Los Angeles …
