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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 531

Zika

A mosquito, released by Senecio Robotics and marked with a fluorescent powder, identified in the wild after its release. (Courtesy)
October 8, 2018, 2:18 pm
Mosquito ‘love bombs’ to combat deadly epidemics
Israeli startup Senecio Robotics plans to mass produce and disperse sterile mosquitoes to halt spread of malaria, Zika, other fatal diseases
By Luke Tress
View of the a mosque in the Old City of Acre, in Northern Israel on October 24, 2016. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
November 13, 2016, 1:57 pm
Ministers approve bill to quiet Muslim prayer call
PM supports the bill that will ban loudspeakers, pointing to similar legislation in Europe. Arabs charge violation of religious liberty
By Gavin Rabinowitz
Live fluorescent imaging of hepatitis C viruses (red) seemingly avoiding liver cells that accumulate fat (green) in spite of the virus's well known contribution to fatty liver disease (Courtesy of Prof. Yaakov Nahmias)
October 10, 2016, 6:03 pm
Hebrew U.-led team finds new metabolic way to resist viruses
International team of scientists identify possible Achilles heel of infection-causing Hepatitis C
By Shoshanna Solomon
Zak Stern, owner of Zak the Baker in Wynwood, Miami, on September 19, 2016 (AP/Lynne Sladky)
September 21, 2016, 10:31 am
Miami kosher cafe celebrates control of Zika
Local baker offers free lunch to pregnant women after state declares area free of virus 45 days after last case
By JTA
A researcher looks at Aedes aegypti mosquitoes kept in a container at a lab of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the Sao Paulo University, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on January 8, 2016. (AFP/NELSON ALMEIDA)
September 12, 2016, 9:16 pm
New Zika case reported in northern Negev
Victim in ‘advanced state of recovery,’ apparently bitten by infected mosquito overseas; local council urges residents to take precautions
By Sue Surkes
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets supporters at a rally at John Marshall High School on August 17, 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images/AFP)
August 20, 2016, 6:21 pm
Clinton having a quiet August, and for her, that’s just fine
Democratic nominee seems content to let Trump dominate coverage, as he overshadows her own potentially damaging scandals
By Catherine Lucey and Lisa Lerer
A researcher looks at Aedes aegypti mosquitoes kept in a container at a lab of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of the Sao Paulo University, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on January 8, 2016. (AFP/NELSON ALMEIDA)
August 4, 2016, 6:15 am
Health Ministry issues Florida travel warning over Zika
Pregnant women and those who want to become pregnant urged to avoid Miami-Dade and Broward counties, where first US cases were recently found
By AFP and ToI Staff
A police officer patrols inside Rio de Janeiro International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, July 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
July 30, 2016, 3:17 am
Rio readies for worst as terror threat hangs over Olympics
With a half-million visitors heading to Brazil for Games from August 5, experts worry security is inadequate
By Joshua Goodman and Mauricio SAVARESE
In this Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016 file photo, health workers get ready to spray insecticide to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmits the Zika virus, under the bleachers of the Sambadrome in Rio de Janeiro, used for the Archery competition in the 2016 summer games. (AP/Leo Correa, File)
May 28, 2016, 3:59 pm
Rio Olympics should move due to Zika concerns, urge 150 experts
World Health Organization says no public health justification for postponing or changing location of August games
By AFP
Milena Rozenbrah and her family. (Courtesy of Rozenbrah family / via JTA)
March 8, 2016, 12:35 am
Battling Zika, Brazil’s Jews turn to bug repellent and indoor activities
The need to control the virus has even led one Chabad rabbi in Rio to override religious bans on killing bugs on Shabbat
By Marcus M. Gilban
A girl paints a mural that educates people about a mosquito control project in the village of San Diego, in La Libertad, Salvador, on February 4, 2016.(AFP PHOTO/MARVIN RECINOS)
February 5, 2016, 8:10 am
Israel issues new rules for blood donors who visit Zika-hit areas
Health Ministry says discussions are ongoing with medical experts ‘to formulate detailed guidelines’ on the virus
By ToI Staff and AFP
Pollution in the northern Israeli city of Haifa, April 15, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)
February 2, 2016, 4:19 pm
A shrill cry by the bay
Panic grips the Israeli press as an air pollution study in Haifa sets off a tidal wave of concern about health risks
By Ilan Ben Zion
Health ministry personnel fumigate against the Aedes aegypti mosquito, carrier of the Zika virus, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on February 1, 2016. (AFP Photo/Orlando Sierra)
February 2, 2016, 1:18 am
WHO declares international health emergency over Zika
Mosquito-borne virus may be linked to surge in birth defects in Latin America, top world health body warns
By Nina Larson
Parents with their children crowd a hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on February 1, 2016. (AFP/Orlando Sierra)
February 1, 2016, 10:01 pm
World health body declares global emergency over Zika virus
‘We need to take action’ after surge in cases of birth defects, says WHO chief Margaret Chan
By AFP
Gleyse Kelly da Silva holds her daughter Maria Giovanna as she sleeps in their house in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
January 30, 2016, 8:26 pm
Colombia: 2,000 pregnant women have Zika virus
Mosquito-borne infection, spreading ‘explosively’ in the Americas, believed to cause brain damage in newborns
By AFP
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