Reuters: Google says its engineers working with UNICEF to map Zika “Alphabet Inc.’s Google said on Thursday that its engineers were working with U.N. child agency UNICEF to analyze data in an effort to map and anticipate the spread of the Zika virus, linked to birth defects among children in…

Wall Street Journal: Brazil Confirms More Microcephaly Births, Dengue Cases Rise “Disease spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito continues to spread in Brazil, as the country reported higher numbers of cases of dengue and a further rise in suspected cases of a birth defect believed to be linked to the…

U.S. News & World Report: Don’t Use Ebola Funds to Fight Zika Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for global health, and Gabriella Meltzer, research associate for global health, both at the Council on Foreign Relations “…[U.S. President Barack] Obama, who requested $1.9 billion in anti-Zika emergency supplemental funds last week, has…

CIDRAP News: Meeting gets under way to set Zika research priorities “A two-day meeting of health researchers began [Tuesday] at Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) headquarters in Washington, D.C., with a goal of fleshing out a public health research agenda to address Zika virus issues…” (Schnirring, 3/1).

Nature: Specter of Ebola haunts Zika response “Public health workers are still struggling to stamp out the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. But the lessons learned from that outbreak — which exposed major flaws in the global public health system — are shaping the escalating international response to the spread…

Washington Post: Zika epidemic uncovers Brazil’s hidden birth-defect problem “…Many doctors, though, say that the jump [in Brazil’s reports of microcephaly cases] is largely illusory — based on massive underreporting of microcephaly and other birth defects in Brazil. What’s more, this poor record-keeping reflects much larger public health problems here:…

The Hill: Using all technologies in the fight against Zika Steve Parkinson, CEO of Lakewood-Amedex “…Congress should encourage the highly professional and hardworking scientists, technicians, and engineers at the FDA and the CDC to work with the ingenuity and innovation of private sector companies with alternative platforms to consider other…

WHO: Bulletin of the World Health Organization The March 2016 WHO Bulletin includes news, research, and policy articles on various topics, including adolescent sexual and reproductive health, Zika virus in Brazil, and global nutrition and health (March 2016).

Huffington Post: How A Town In Brazil Reportedly Rid Itself Of The Zika Mosquito “…Compared to other similarly sized rural towns in Brazil, Água Branca should have a mosquito problem. But in 2013, when Zika virus wasn’t even an issue, the town launched a community initiative to address rising dengue…

News outlets discuss findings from a study published in The Lancet showing an association between Zika virus and Guillain-Barré syndrome. New York Times: New Study Links Zika Virus to Temporary Paralysis “A new study of 42 cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome in French Polynesia offers the strongest evidence to date that…