The European Medicines Agency is recommending that a dengue vaccine made by the Japanese pharmaceutical Takeda be authorized, in a move that could provide a new tool for millions worldwide against the potentially fatal disease.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Over 5,000 cases of Zika virus have been reported in the United States since 2015, and scientists say there may be a resurgence of cases of this mosquito-borne disease over the next few months. Researchers have learned more about how Zika is transmitted and are finding therapies to stop the virus before it does its damage. She and her colleagues at Washington University in St. Louis are looking at ways to stop the spread of Zika from mother to child. There have been very few studies linking Zika virus to infertility in men.