TEHRAN, Sep. 08 (MNA) After numerous cases of Zica infection in Malaysia and Singapore were officially confirmed, Irans mission in Kuala Lumpur issued a warning demanding cancellation of unnecessary travels to the region. Protecting family members from mosquito bites, keeping living areas and children playgrounds hygiene, abstaining from unnecessary ...

GENEVA, Feb. 20 (MNA) The World Health Organization, WHO, recognized that there is growing evidence of the link between Zika and Microcephaly but the real probe will come at the middle of this year. Women that were pregnant during the last 3 months of last year will start giving birth in June according to Dr. Bruce Aylward, WHO's executive director ...

GENEVA, Feb. 03 (MNA) The Zika virus and its likely link to microcephaly or neurological complications in newborn babies might spread to Asia and Africa, warned the World Health Organization.   The illness could go to other parts of the world where the population is not immune, lamented the head of Department of Mother and Child Health ...

Tehran, Jan 31, IRNA- Head of Communicable Diseases Management Center of the Ministry of Health, Treatment and Medical Education said that despite the existence of Zika mosquito, there is no sign of this disease in Iran and the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Mohammad Mahdi Gooya told IRNA on Sunday that the Zika virus is a mosquito-borne disease but ...