By PAM BELLUCK and DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.APRIL 13, 2016 A therapist teaching a mother in Recife, Brazil, last month how to massage her baby,…

U.S. health officials: Zika ‘scarier than we thought’ U.S. health officials say the spread and impact of the Zika virus is wider than initially anticipated,…

The Obama Administration’s Zika Offensive Top public-health officials have joined the political fight over emergency funding for efforts to stop the virus. Kevin Lamarque /…

Haiti Libre: The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) committed today to both assisting 1.6 million people hit by droughts exacerbated by El Niño in…

An edes aegypti mosquito is seen inside a test tube as part of a research on preventing the spread of the Zika virus and other…

Some of the food distributed to the drought-affected communities of Las Hastas and Los Achiotes in the town of Orocuina, Choluteca, Honduras. Photo: WFP/Hetze Tosta…

Nadja Bezerra carries her 4-month-old daughter, Alice, who was born with microcephaly, in Recife, Brazil. Dado Galdieri/Bloomberg via Getty Images Lourdes Garcia-Navarro He asked for…

Therapist Rozely Fontoura holds Juan Pedro, who has microcephaly, in Recife, Brazil March 26, 2016. Reuters/Paulo Whitaker Brain scans of 23 Brazilian infants with the…

Peanuts being sorted before roasting in Haiti. Photo by Cory Flanagin. The people of Haiti deserve better agriculture solutions than extra peanuts from the American…

First Zika case confirmed in Arizona A woman from Maricopa County was confirmed to have contracted the Zika virus, the Arizona Department of Health Services…

Brooke Binkowski Claim: The United States fought to keep Haiti’s minimum wage from going up to $0.61 cents an hour. Example: [Collected via Facebook, April…

By Dr. Lex O. McMillan III Although Haiti is our near neighbor geographically, its distance from the United States culturally and economically would be difficult…

Posted by Sandra Wood, Deputy Administrator for Commodity Operations, USDA Farm Service Agency, on March 31, 2016 at 4:00 PM U.S. peanut farmers produce more…

By AMY HARMONMARCH 30, 2016 A female Aedes aegypti mosquito takes a “blood meal” from Ben Matthews, a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University. Dozens of…

Many Americans are woefully misinformed when it comes to understanding the risks of Zika virus, a new Harvard poll has found. The mosquito-borne virus may…

Timberland Commissions Study to Test Feasibility of Reintroducing Cotton as Haitian Export Crop Timberland, Smallholder Farmers Alliance and Impact Farming Join Forces to Explore Expansion…

The number of confirmed and suspected cases of microcephaly in Brazil associated with the Zika virus rose to 5,200 in the week through March 19,…

Ann Swanson- Washington Post Health authorities with the help of the Cuban army fumigate against the Aedes aegypti mosquito to prevent the spread of zika,…

Panama has registered a baby born with a brain disorder believed linked to the Zika virus, in what is thought to be the first such…

Observations from French Polynesia during a Zika virus outbreak 2 years ago add the virus to the list of pathogens that can trigger Guillain–Barré syndrome…