SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Summer Olympics is just three days away, and amid the Zika scare that still lingers among athletes and visiting sports fans, South Korea’s mosquito-proof uniforms are attracting foreign media attention. CNN introduced the uniforms Monday, commenting that “South Korea is taking precautions to protect its athletes at the [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will be sending its largest medical team to a multisport competition at this year’s Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics, hoping to keep its athletes healthy amid the Zika virus scare, pollution problems and security challenges. The Korean Olympic Committee (KOC) said Friday it has put together a [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has confirmed its sixth Zika virus infection in a woman who returned from the Dominican Republic, local health authorities said Friday. The latest Zika patient was discovered 51 days after the fifth case was confirmed here. The 28-year-old South Korean woman has tested positive for the mosquito-borne [...]
SEOUL, June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – According to Korea’s Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) and the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIFP) Monday, the latter’s BioNano Health Guard Research Center and Genbody have developed a test kit that can determine the presence of the Zika virus in just 20 minutes. The presence [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) – A South Korean research team said Friday it has isolated a live Zika virus from a local patient’s semen, showing the possibility of sexual transmission. The 43-year-old man developed such symptoms as fever, chill and eye pain about a week after returning from Brazil in March where he was bitten [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The causal relationship between microcephaly and infections from the Zika virus as spread via sexual intercourse has been confirmed. Research has yet to be undertaken on how the virus spreads from non-symptomatic patients, the contagious time period for infected patients, and at what point during pregnancy the fetus is [...]