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Our View: Partisanship stalls fight against Zika virus

by The Editorial Board July 20, 2016July 19, 2016

Limits on access to birth control have no place in a proposal to halt the spread of a virus linked to birth defects.

by MIKE STOBBE The Associated Press July 15, 2016July 15, 2016

The agency also advises pregnant women to use protection if their sex partner has traveled to a Zika-infected region.

by From wire service reports June 22, 2016June 22, 2016

Golf is back in the Olympics, but four-time major champ Rory McIlroy will not risk illness to play.

Pesticides create environmental problems that are far worse than Americans’ risk of contracting the virus.

All it takes is one infected traveler and one mosquito to spread a virus that leaves children with severe birth defects.

by From news service reports June 2, 2016June 2, 2016

Tejay van Garderen, concerned with infecting his pregnant wife, is one of the athletes at least expressing reservations.

by the Associate Press June 1, 2016June 1, 2016

Adding to the urgency, a tourist contracted dengue fever in Key West from the same type of mosquito that also transmits Zika.

by GEIR MOULSON The Associated Press May 28, 2016May 28, 2016

Health experts had written an open letter to U.N. agency asking that the games be postponed or moved.

by Lena H. Sun The Washington Post May 25, 2016May 26, 2016

The chance of a severe brain defect developing is sharply higher if the Zika infection occurs early in pregnancy.

by JENNIFER KAY The Associated Press May 24, 2016May 24, 2016

A dengue fever outbreak in the town of Rio in August and September 2013 infected 28 people.