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Zika virus turns human skin into a mosquito magnet, enhancing viral spread

Researchers find infected individuals produce more compounds that encourage mosquito bites.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Zika virus turns human skin into a mosquito magnet, enhancing viral spread. Illustration.
A research scientist holds a vial marked "Zika"

Two Israelis contract Zika after visiting Thailand

Eight cases of Zika were diagnosed in Israel since 2019, according to the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of the Environment. In all of those cases, the patients contracted it while abroad.

|ByRACHEL WOLF
A research scientist holds a vial marked "Zika"

New TAU study identifies genes that can protect cells from Zika virus

Research may eventually lead to "a novel antiviral therapy" to fight the virus, which has affected over 60 million people worldwide, often causing severe brain anomalies in infants.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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Zika has arrived in Israel too; need we be worried?

Three patients infected with the virus have been diagnosed over the last year in Israel, in the Beersheba and Shoham area.

|ByNOA BAR-ON

New Zika case identified in central Israel resident

Thus far, about 20 Israelis have been diagnosed with Zika in recent months – with all of the infections originating abroad rather than through local transmission.

DECEMBER 22, 2016BySHARON UDASIN
A research scientist holds a vial marked "Zika"

Fears in US that money to fight Zika 'rapidly running out'

Obama calls on Congress to approve more funding to prevent spread of Zika in the US.

AUGUST 5, 2016ByREUTERS
Mosquito (illustrative).