JEJU, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has reported its first confirmed case of Zika virus infection this year, health officials announced Monday, after a patient tested positive following travel to Southeast Asia. According to the Jeju provincial government, a man in his 40s—identified only as Mr. A—was diagnosed with Zika virus on May [...]
Leiden, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Today, Batavia Biosciences announced that the company has signed a license agreement to utilize Horizon Discovery’s GS knockout CHO K1 cell line expression system for the development of high yield antibody-expressing cell lines. Initially, Batavia will deploy the system for production of a potent Zika virus neutralizing antibody, working in collaboration with Vanderbilt [...]
Nassau, Bahamas, Mar. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Two of the world’s leading health organizations have recently declared that The Islands Of The Bahamas do not pose a known risk to travelers of contracting the Zika virus. No new cases of Zika have been identified in the country within the past 12 months. On February 2, [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s apparel firm Kolon Fashion Material Co. said Monday that it will provide “mosquito-free” uniforms to the country’s athletes participating in the Rio de Janeiro Summer Olympics. The so-called “MOS-LOCK” will be made out of fabric that is equipped with repellent that keeps mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus [...]
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 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The fifth case of Zika virus infection in South Korea has been found in a man in his 30s who recently came back from a business trip to the Philippines, local health authorities said Wednesday. The 39-year-old man, whose identity was withheld, visited Batangas, some 100 kilometers south of Manila, [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The fourth case of a Zika virus infection in South Korea has been found in a 25-year-old woman who recently came back from a trip to Vietnam, local health authorities said Saturday. The unmarried woman, whose identity was withheld, worked in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam from April [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Nearly 20 suspected cases of the ZIKA infection have been reported in South Korea over the past week but none have tested positive for the mosquito-borne virus, health authorities said Wednesday. During the week-long period that started last Thursday, 18 suspected cases of ZIKA have been reported to the [...]