The Ethics Working Group on ZIKV Research & Pregnancy, an interdisciplinary group of international experts in vaccinology, maternal and child health, public health, and ethics, has developed ethics guidance for including the interests of pregnant women and their offspring in ... Read more
Researchers in Brazil want to share that there have been 40 confirmed deaths from Chikungunya in Fortaleza. This is a significant increase in both mortality and the severity of the disease. The Fortaleza research team are part of the REDe ... Read more
Dr Fernando Bozza will give a talk in Oxford on the 6th of July 2017 about international collaboration during the Zika outbreak. Read more
The findings from this study indicate that the immunity of the Cameroonian population against ZIKV is low and that circulation in urban populations is uncommon. Hence, the risk of epidemic spread of ZIKV does exist. Read more
Institut Pasteur Shanghai-Chinese Academy of Sciences (IPS-CAS), a partner of the ZIKAlliance consortium, announced that it has entered into a collaborative research agreement with Chongqing Zhifei Biological Products Stock Co., Ltd. (Zhifei) for the clinical studies and commercialization of a ... Read more
Updated Zika CRFs Data Dictionaries v5.8 are now available to download from the Zika Infection website. Read more
The key message from this study is that the large uncertainty around the risk estimate needs to be further investigated because of a) the possible existence of co-factors that are yet to be validated, b) the assumptions that the authors ... Read more
A study performed by the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) team of Dr Ali Amara (U944, Paris, France) and published in Cell Reports sheds new light on the mechanisms allowing ZIKV to infect cells ... Read more
GloPID-R members hosted the “GloPID-R Zika Virus Research Workshop” in Sao Paulo, Brazil on November 30 – December 2, 2016 to facilitate collaboration between members on Zika funded research projects. The workshop’s aim was to identify and establish collaboration and ... Read more
Updated ISARIC/PREPARE/CONSISE/REACTing Case Report Forms for Zika Virus (v6.1) are now available Read more
CONSISE and the Institut Pasteur were asked to draft six standardized research protocols for Zika. Our expertise in rapidly drafting such technical documents, summoning and incorporating technical input have allowed us to support efforts to harmonize epidemiologic and clinical research ... Read more
Updates and guidelines
Single Case of Locally Transmitted Zika Identified in Manatee County
12 October 2017 | Florida Department of Health
FDA approves first test for screening Zika virus in blood donations
05 October 2017 | FDA
News and Media
We could soon have a vaccine to fight the Zika virus
10 October 2017 | WEF
Better mini brains could help scientists identify treatments for Zika-related brain damage
10 October 2017 | UCLA
First test to detect Zika in blood donations approved
09 October 2017 | MedicalXpress
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Brazilian Ministry of Health's epidemiology portal
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PAHO have just released their document on their Ethics Guidance on Key Issues raised by the Outbreak. Ethical duties in the domains of health care delivery, public health activity, and research are explained. A Spanish version will be published next week.
The UK National Collection of Pathogenic Viruses have a Ugandan strain of Zika virus available for international research. Virus culture and RNA formats are available. See more information here. They will soon have a strain isolated from Puerto Rico available too.
Updated Zika Virus CRFs now available!
Updated ISARIC/PREPARE Case Report Forms for Zika Virus (version 5.2) are now available. Updates include changes to ensure that no data field is left blank and implementation of recommendations from colleagues.
We have also finalised the Spanish translations for Version 5.2.
Portuguese and French translations will be available shortly. Please let us know if you have any comments or concerns about these CRFs.
The WHO have created a list of common questions and answers (updated 10 March) with an accompanying video.
The second meeting of the Emergency Committee (EC) convened by the Director-General under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR 2005) regarding clusters of microcephaly cases and other neurological disorders in some areas affected by Zika virus was held by teleconference on 8 March 2016, from 13:00 to 16:45 Central European Time.
This is the first study providing evidence for Zika virus infection causing Guillain-Barré syndrome. Because Zika virus is spreading rapidly across the Americas, at risk countries need to prepare for adequate intensive care beds capacity to manage patients with Guillain-Barré syndrome. See the article here and an editorial here.
The African Society of Laboratory Medicine weighs in on diagnostic capacity in Africa, and the need for a more readily accessible test for Zika virus.
Because these new reports suggest sexual transmission may be a more likely means of transmission for Zika virus than previously considered, CDC issued a Health Advisory Notice (HAN) today to underscore the importance of adhering to the interim guidance published on February 5.
Thirty-three leading global health bodies including academic journals, NGOs, research funders and institutes, have committed to sharing data and results relevant to the current Zika crisis and future public health emergencies as rapidly and openly as possible.
REDe is tasked with creating a regional research network that is able to respond to emerging infectious diseases. This regionally-led network needs to be equipped with the knowledge, methods, skills and capabilities to support a high quality, rapid and coherent research response to the Zika outbreak in the short term.
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