Zika’s Not A Global Health Emergency — Its Potential Consequences Are
The push notifications came vibrating in this afternoon: “The Zika virus is a global emergency,” the one from The New York Times said. “World Health Organization declares Zika to be global...
View ArticleAsking Women To Avoid Pregnancy Is Absurd, Even In The Face Of Zika
Whose responsibility is it to stop Zika? The largely mosquito-borne22 virus has spread to more than 20 countries and territories in the Americas since it arrived in Brazil about a year ago, and there’s...
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Why It’s So Hard To Prove Zika Is Causing Birth Defects
For weeks, Zika virus has been all over the news. Stark photos of babies with microcephaly, a birth defect in which the infant’s head is abnormally small and its brain often not fully developed, have...
View ArticleCongress’s Zika Fight Is Really About A Slush Fund To Combat Infectious Diseases
More diseases, fewer barriers, more problems. Since 1980, the number and diversity of infectious disease outbreaks has increased significantly. There were fewer than 1,000 outbreaks of infectious...
View ArticleZika Has Made Its Way To Florida Mosquitoes
UPDATE (Aug. 1, 2:20 p.m.): Florida Gov. Rick Scott announced Monday that state health officials have found 10 more people with Zika virus who are believed to have been infected by mosquitoes in a...
View ArticleFive Enduring Questions About Zika
Zika. It’s the microscopic mascot of the troubled Rio de Janeiro Olympics. It’s an inconvenient reminder of how globalization can affect public health. And for millions of people who just want a...
View ArticleWhy The Olympics Probably Won’t Spread Zika
The Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games pose little additional risk of causing new outbreaks of the Zika virus, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently wrote. The report came on the tails...
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Small Island, Big Experiment
How a tiny Florida community could influence the way we fight Zika around the world.By Anna Maria Barry-JesterGraphics by Ella KoezePhotography by Erika LarsenIllustrations by Tom McCartenDevelopment...
View ArticleFlorida’s Trial Of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes Will Probably Happen
You’re reading Back of the Envelope, an experiment that aims to bring shorter, quicker content to FiveThirtyEight. On Nov. 8, Florida Keys voters weighed in on whether they wanted to move forward with...
View ArticleTexas Has Reported Its First Local Case Of Zika
A woman in Texas appears to have acquired the Zika virus from a local mosquito, which would make Texas the second state where the virus has spread from mosquitoes to humans (Florida was the first)....
View ArticleThe Latest Zika News Is More Bad News
It’s been a busy week for Zika news. Local spread of Zika virus in Brownsville, Texas, led to a travel advisory for the area this week, just as multiple studies were published detailing what percentage...
View ArticleWe Could Probably Predict Zika Outbreaks If Humans Weren’t So Unpredictable
Early last year, President Trump was just the punchline to jokes about the motley ensemble of Republican presidential candidates and the Zika virus was the national story of the moment. The...
View ArticleOne More Thing For Puerto Rico To Worry About: Disease-Ridden Mosquitoes
The images and reports coming out of Puerto Rico show an island in crisis. Many ports remain closed, airports are damaged, and roads are blocked by debris or have been washed away by floods....
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‘Tis The Season … For Gonorrhea?
Disease ‘Tis The Season … For Gonorrhea? We might be done with norovirus, but every season is disease season. By Maggie Koerth Mar. 22, 2023, at 6:00 AM PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY...
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