How to Use Zika virus in a Sentence

Zika virus

noun
  • RenBio is also using this platform to make protein therapies that can be built in the same way, like antibodies to the Zika virus.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
  • In most cases, mosquito repellent is the only way to keep them from biting, reducing itchiness and protecting you from harmful diseases like Zika virus and malaria.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2025
  • RenBio hopes to begin testing its plasma platform to deliver instructions for making antibodies against the Zika virus in people next year.
    — Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 4 Nov. 2025
  • However, some species, including Aedes aegypti, can carry and transmit diseases, such as dengue, chikungunya, West Nile virus, yellow fever and Zika virus.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Zika virus is another illness primarily spread by mosquitoes with infection during pregnancy potentially causing fetuses to develop a birth defect called microcephaly.
    — Dr. Andrew Bernstein, Boston Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The university uses primates to research HIV/SIV, Zika virus, aging and Alzheimer’s disease and respiratory diseases, according to Fell.
    — Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 7 May 2026
  • Debug’s request to use Wolbachia against a particular species of mosquito called Aedes aegypti — responsible for spreading diseases like dengue, yellow fever, and the Zika virus — is currently pending approval from the EPA, and is open to public comment until June 5.
    — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 4 June 2026

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