In overlooked cellular connections, this researcher charted Zika’s path to the placenta In overlooked cellular connections, STAT Wunderkind Rafael Michita charted Zika’s path to the placenta.

2025 BCM STAT #Wunderkind @rafaelmichita.bsky.social talks about his groundbreaking research on maternal-fetal viral transmission #ZikaVirus tinyurl.com/5pezvech @bcmhouston.bsky.social @statnews.com #BCMPostdoc @mysorekarlab.bsky.social

Congratulations, Dr. Rafael Tomoya Michita @rafaelmichita.bsky.social, BCM's 2025 Wunderkind! #BCMPostdoc @mysorekarlab.bsky.social @statnews.com #BCMDeptMedicine @bcmhouston.bsky.social #ZikaVirus www.bcm.edu/news/dr-rafa...

Business Owner Shares Joinville's Journey to Zero Dengue|World Mosquito Program Business manager Noel Maciel Junior shares how dengue devastated Joinville, Brazil, and how our Wolbachia method is bringing hope to the community with dramatically reduced cases and zero deaths in 20...

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Prenatal Zika virus exposure causes long-term, sex-specific immune changes in offspring, study finds A team of researchers at the C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development at Wayne State University has uncovered how exposure to the Zika virus during pregnancy can cause lasting, sex-specific c...

A team at our C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth & Development has uncovered how exposure to #Zikavirus during pregnancy can cause lasting, sex-specific changes to a child’s immune system, even when no birth defects are apparent.

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INSS recebe pedidos de pensão especial e indenização a vítimas de Zika O Instituto Nacional do Seguro Social (INSS) começou a receber pedidos de pensão especial vitalícia e de indenização para pessoas com deficiência permanente decorrente da síndrome congênita causada pela infecção pelo vírus Zika durante a gestação. O representante legal da pessoa nesta situação deve fazer a solicitação virtualmente pelo aplicativo para celular Meu INSS ou pelo site Meu INSS. O INSS avisa […]

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Bright led BARDA when the US decided to invest heavily in mRNA—not for COVID-19, but for 2016 Zika outbreak.

"We needed a way to design vaccines in days, not years, to protect pregnant women from devastating birth defects."
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including #Zikavirus (ZIKV), #vesicularstomatitis virus (VSV) & severe #Covid .
In vivo studies showed that prophylactic administration of modISG10 protected hamsters from a lethal #SARSCoV2 challenge and reduced #viralloads in the 🫁 of IAV-infected 🐁 .

Urussanga intensifica combate ao Aedes aegypti com modernização de armadilhas Em Urussanga, a Secretaria de Saúde, por meio da equipe de Vigilância em Endemias, iniciou a reforma e modernização das armadilhas utilizadas no controle do mosquito Aedes aegypti, transmissor da dengue, chikungunya, zika vírus e outras arboviroses. A ação faz parte do Plano Municipal e Estadual de Combate às Arboviroses e visa fortalecer a vigilância […]

It’s hoped that the vaccine, designed to be suitable for use during pregnancy, will generate highly protective and long-lasting immunity. If successful, the new trial could lead to a major breakthrough in tackling the Zika virus.
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A decade later, what have we learned from the Zika epidemic in children with intrauterine exposure? Since the emergence of the Zika virus epidemic in 2014 and the associated novel sequalae that emerged, much has been learned about the effects of antenatal exposure to Zika virus. Zika virus in pregna...

Additionally, the probability of reinfection in individuals previously exposed to the #Zikavirus is another crucial factor that could influence the likelihood of future outbreaks.
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This expansion of the mosquito vector A albopictus into southern EU in the last decade, where the population is largely unexposed to the #Zikavirus, suggests that other countries with similar characteristics may be at increased risk of new outbreaks.

#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #pedsky #microsky #publichealth The recent post-epidemic #autochthonous transmission of the #Zikavirus in EU from 2019 onwards offers valuable insights into countries at risk for future outbreaks.

Travel Vaccinations and Health Risks in Brazil: Stay Protected from South American Tropical Diseases! Learn the travel vaccines for South America & Brazil. Discover symptoms, treatments, and prevention tips for common diseases. Stay safe!

Discover essential vaccines and #illness prevention tips for #Brazil and South America. Stay healthy while traveling. Visit now to learn more!

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FINALLY SOMEONE IN NEWS MEDIA SAID IT! IT'S A FUCKING #CONCENTRATIONCAMP FUCK #DESANTIS FUCK #TRUMP youtu.be/SCJ4DMLURU0 I hope every last one of them gets #zikavirus #malaria or anything else those mosquitoes carry. Fuck this shithole country and FUCK FLORDIA AND ALL WHO VOTED THIS SHIT IN

Peter Hotez: Yellow fever has broken out of Brazil. The U.S. isn't ready. "Sometimes people ask me, 'Hey, Doc, what scares you more than anything else?' And often they’re surprised when I say yellow fever."

🦟 Dr. Peter Hotez warns: #Yellowfever is expanding beyond Brazil - and the U.S. isn’t ready.

📣 We don’t stockpile #vaccines 🙄, and the Aedes aegypti #mosquito (which also spreads #Zikavirus, #denguefever & #chikungunya) is common in....🧵

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What could possibly go wrong 🤷🏼‍♀️ #avianflu #covid #measles #ebola #zikavirus #denguefever #influenza

The #Aedesaegypti travels less than 150m in its lifetime, yet causes millions of #dengue cases worldwide.

Its advantage? Complete adaptation to human environments—breeding, feeding and living almost exclusively with us.

Our Wolbachia method disrupts this transmission.

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Adverse fetal and perinatal outcomes associated with Zika virus infection during pregnancy: an individual participant data meta-analysis Zika virus (ZIKV) infection during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of congenital malformations. The prevalence of short and long-term c…

Great work and effort from different world areas! Defining outcomes for children exposed to #zikavirus prenatally @who.int www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

(3/?) Outside of #UTI, Dr. Mysorekar is a leading expert on how viruses like #COVID and #Zikavirus affect mother and child during pregnancy. This post from @BCMFromtheLabs.bsky.social shows a picture the Mysorekar lab took of a virus "tunneling" into healthy placental cells! 🤯
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Missed opportunities for equity: a crucial perspective on the Lancet's Zika virus research Series The Zika Virus: Research Priorities for Preparedness and Response Series1 is well timed, marking nearly a decade since the Zika epidemic. However, the authorship imbalance that overlooks the contribut...

We wrote a correspondence for @thelancet.bsky.social on global research on #Zikavirus and equity:

Missed opportunities for equity: a crucial perspective on the Lancet's Zika virus research Series - The Lancet Infectious Diseases
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GVN Center Director Dr. Lee-Ching Ng's research highlights a critical gap in Zika prevention—no approved vaccines or mAbs, leaving pregnant women at risk. Read more: ow.ly/XjTe50VtXP3 #ZikaVirus #GlobalHealth #NEAsg

Zika Virus: The Silent Saboteur of Immune Defenses A new study shows how the Zika virus disarms our immune system by hijacking dendritic cells—opening doors to future treatments.

Uncover how Zika virus stealthily disables our immune defenses, paving the way for innovative treatments and vaccines. #ZikaVirus #Immunology #MedicalResearch

Tunnel-Building Virus: How Zika Secretly Crosses from Mother to Fetus Penn State scientists discovered Zika virus builds microscopic tunnels to infect fetuses. This breakthrough could lead to drugs that block mother-to-baby transmission.

Zika virus secretly builds tiny tunnels to infect unborn babies. Penn State scientists reveal how—and why this discovery could stop future infections.

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Zika virus NS1 drives tunneling nanotube formation for mitochondrial transfer and stealth transmission in trophoblasts | Nature Communications Zika virus (ZIKV) is unique among orthoflaviviruses in its vertical transmission capacity in humans, yet the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood. Here, we show that ZIKV induces tunneling nanotubes (TNTs) in placental trophoblasts which facilitate transfer of viral particles, proteins, mitochondria, and RNA to neighboring uninfected cells. TNT formation is driven exclusively via ZIKV non-structural protein 1 (NS1). Specifically, the N-terminal 1-50 amino acids of membrane-bound ZIKV NS1 are necessary for triggering TNT formation in host cells. Trophoblasts infected with TNT-deficient ZIKVΔTNT mutant virus elicited a robust antiviral IFN-λ 1/2/3 response relative to WT ZIKV, suggesting TNT-mediated trafficking allows ZIKV cell-to-cell transmission camouflaged from host defenses. Using affinity purification-mass spectrometry of cells expressing wild-type NS1 or non-TNT forming NS1, we found mitochondrial proteins are dominant NS1-interacting partners. We demonstrate that

Zika NS1 protein induces TNTs in trophoblasts, enabling viral, mitochondrial, protein, and RNA transfer to nearby cells—key to its unique transmission. #ZikaVirus PMID:39979240, Nat Commun 2025, @NatureComms https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-56927-2 #Medsky 🧪

🦟 #FunFactFriday: Aedes aegypti eggs survive months in dry conditions, waiting dormant until water returns.

This survival trick certainly makes mosquito control challenging. But this knowledge is essential for us to protect communities from mosquito-borne diseases like #dengue and #zikavirus.
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Stealth virus: Zika virus builds tunnels to covertly infect cells of the placenta Infection with Zika virus in pregnancy can lead to neurological disorders, fetal abnormalities and fetal death. Until now, how the virus manages to cross...

#Stealth virus: #ZikaVirus builds tunnels to covertly infect cells of the #placenta. Read @mysorekarlab.bsky.social @rafaelmichita.bsky.social @longbtran.bsky.social story, here: www.bcm.edu/news/stealth... @bcmhouston.bsky.social #NatureComm.

How it works|World Mosquito Program When mosquitoes carry Wolbachia, the transmission of mosquito-borne diseases is reduced. Read more!

Understanding these types of behaviours is what helps us and others protect communities from viral mosquito-borne diseases such as #dengue and #ZikaVirus. To learn more about our work visit our website: www.worldmosquitoprogram.org/en/work/wolb...

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Maul- und Klauenseuche: Todesurteil für ganze Tierherden In Deutschland ist die Maul- und Klauenseuche erstmals wieder aufgetreten. Das Virus ist hochansteckend, infizierte Tiere werden getötet. Ständige Gefahr droht aus Ländern, in denen das Virus endemisch ist. Julia Vergin | Deutsche Welle Ist auch nur ein Tier mit der Maul- und Klauenseuche infiziert, wird die ganze Herde getötet. Deutschland galt seit 1988 als frei von der Maul- und Klauenseuche (MKS).

Maul- und Klauenseuche: Todesurteil für ganze Tierherden https://wp.me/p36Ae-1a3B Deutschland galt seit 1988 als frei von der Maul- und Klauenseuche (MKS). Doch nun ist das Virus in einer Herde Wasserbüffel in Brandenburg ausgebrochen. #MKS #ZikaVirus