El Niño and the Zika virus
4 february 2016
El Niño is an environmental phenomenon that occurs cyclically and will soon begin. Its effects, such as flooding, can be devastating global. Can El Niño have some effect on the Zika?.
Transgenic mosquitoes against the Zika
1 february 2016
The new control method established in an area of Latin America is fighting Zika focused on the elimination of the mosquito that transmits it through the release of transgenic mosquitoes.
Molecular diagnosis and tropical diseases
13 january 2016
The molecular diagnosis could help cure tropical diseases effectively. This method has been in place 20 years but has never been applied to tropical diseases. The book 'Diagnosis of neglected diseases: molecules and tropic' deals with it.
Zika virus and pregnancy: epidemic of microcephaly in Brazil
11 january 2016
The cases of newborns with microcephaly has massively increased in the last year in Brazil, which has declared a health emergency and suspect the correlation between the disease with the Zika virus .