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  • Friday, 13 July, 2018
    Health
    FT Health: Is there a doctor on board?

    Carlos Morel on epidemics, breastfeeding battle, Trump v Big Pharma

  • Wednesday, 28 February, 2018
    Special ReportFT Health: The Future of Rare Diseases
    Brazilian team finds clue to congenital Zika syndrome

    Mayana Zatz’s work on twins shows a genetic component to the birth defect

  • Wednesday, 4 October, 2017
    Nobel prizes
    Nobel chemistry prize for developers of ‘cool microscopy’

    Technique generates 3D images used for drugs to treat Zika and other diseases

  • Wednesday, 24 May, 2017
    Health sector
    Scientists ‘way behind the curve’ on threat of Zika virus

    Study shows disease was circulating in Brazil a year before cases were recognised

  • Monday, 24 April, 2017
    Disease control and prevention
    Lab breeds mosquitoes to kill their offspring in fight against malaria

    Oxford-grown insects pass toxic genes to their young

  • Tuesday, 18 April, 2017
    Special ReportFT Health: Vaccines
    Zika vaccine researchers seek to ‘fight fire with fire’

    Plans include using one virus to attack another

  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2017
    World
    Davos launch for coalition to prevent epidemics of emerging viruses

    Billion-dollar programme aims to cut vaccine-development time from 12 years to one

  • Thursday, 17 November, 2016
    Child mortality
    Health workers prepare for second surge of Zika-related birth defects

    As evidence grows of a link between the virus and microcephaly, poorer communities are the most vulnerable

  • Thursday, 20 October, 2016
    US politics & policy
    Zika sparks US call for future emergencies fund

    Centers for Disease Control chief Tom Frieden seeks Fema-like crisis resource

  • Wednesday, 7 September, 2016
    World
    Malaysia confirms first Zika case in pregnant woman

    Singapore remains centre of Asia’s largest single outbreak

  • Thursday, 1 September, 2016
    World
    Pregnant woman in Singapore contracts Zika

    Number of confirmed cases reaches 115 as disease spreads to Malaysia

  • Wednesday, 31 August, 2016
    World
    Avoiding the Zika virus in Indonesia
  • Wednesday, 31 August, 2016
    World
    Singapore identifies 26 more Zika virus cases

    US, Australia and Taiwan advise pregnant women to avoid travel to city-state

  • Monday, 29 August, 2016
    Indian society
    India beset by outbreaks of mosquito-borne diseases

    Dengue and chikungunya have become entrenched in New Delhi’s ecosystem

  • Monday, 29 August, 2016
    World
    Singapore steps up efforts to contain Zika

    Spate of cases raises questions over city-state’s vulnerability to infection

  • Sunday, 28 August, 2016
    World
    Singapore mobilises against Zika cluster

    City-state confirms 41 cases in area around building site

  • Friday, 19 August, 2016
    fastFTPan Kwan Yuk
    US adds Miami Beach to Zika travel warning
  • Friday, 12 August, 2016
    fastFTEric Platt
    US declares Zika emergency in Puerto Rico
  • Wednesday, 10 August, 2016
    Pharmaceuticals sector
    The Zika virus — where did it come from and where will it end?

    Research is gathering pace as the mosquito-borne disease explodes across Latin America

  • Wednesday, 10 August, 2016
    US & Canadian companies
    Life goes on in US’s Zika ‘Ground Zero’ as politicians bicker

    Life goes on in US’s Zika ‘Ground Zero’

  • Wednesday, 22 June, 2016
    Sport
    Rory McIlroy pulls out of Rio Olympics over Zika fears

    Irish golfer says health risk to him and his family is too high

  • Wednesday, 8 June, 2016
    Sport
    Olympic champion Greg Rutherford freezes sperm on Zika virus fears

    Greg Rutherford’s decision reflects widespread concern among Rio athletes over potential health risk

  • Sunday, 3 April, 2016
    European companies
    Sanofi to launch dengue mass vaccination programme

    One million Filipino school children to be given shots costing €20 apiece

  • Friday, 1 April, 2016
    Person in the NewsBrazilian economy
    Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s warrior president under fire

    The country’s first woman leader is facing the fight of her political life, writes Joe Leahy

  • Monday, 7 March, 2016
    Global Economy
    WHO chief wants help for drug industry to fight global pandemics

    Director Margaret Chan says pharma groups cannot continue to fund research

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