At epicenter of Zika virus, anguished parents seek answers

CBS News' Dr. Jon LaPook is in Brazil with the latest on an international public health emergency -- linked to severe birth defects

• Feb 2, 2016

Zika virus declared a global health emergency

Emergency declaration could boost efforts to fight the spread of illness linked to birth defects

• Feb 1, 2016

Zika virus takes heartbreaking toll

Brazil's northeastern state of Pernambuco has been hardest hit by the Zika virus

• Feb 1, 2016
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Brazil struggles to contain surging Zika virus outbreak

Virus linked to birth defects and brain damage could spread to four million across the Americas in the next 12 months

• Feb 1, 2016

Zika survivor: "All of my joints felt like lead weights"

Brazilian-American man tells CBS News about his harrowing experience with Zika virus; his doctors in New York "had never seen a case of Zika"

• Jan 29, 2016

Can genetically modified mosquitoes snuff out Zika?

As companies race to create vaccines, Brazil is already testing a different way to fight the disease, and Florida may follow

• Jan 29, 2016

NIH: Zika virus at "pandemic" level

World Health Organization warns the Zika virus is "spreading explosively" and could infect four million people by the end of the year

• Jan 28, 2016

In face of Zika virus, women ponder abortion, childlessness

Concerns over Zika virus are raising anxiety for millions of would-be and could-be mothers in affected areas

• Jan 28, 2016

Travel alert expands as Zika virus cases spread

Two popular winter travel destinations are added to a travel advisory over virus linked to birth defects

• Jan 26, 2016

Zika virus adding to long list of Brazil Olympics woes

Sure, pregnant women now advised to avoid Brazil, but with corruption, crime and pollution rampant, it's just another headache for Olympics organizers

• Jan 24, 2016

Zika virus raises new worry about paralysis

Health officials investigate connection to rare but serious Guillain-Barré syndrome; travel warning expands

• Jan 22, 2016

Zika virus likely to spread in U.S., experts say

"It's not if, it's when," one expert says, as concerns grow about the mosquito-borne virus

• Jan 21, 2016

Concerns over Zika virus outbreak growing in U.S.

The CDC is warning pregnant women to avoid travel to 14 countries as all confirmed cases in the U.S. involve foreign travel

• Jan 21, 2016

Travel warning issued for pregnant women amid Zika outbreak

The CDC is advising pregnant women against travel to 14 countries that have seen an increase in Zika virus infections

• Jan 18, 2016

Hawaii baby born with brain damage linked to Zika virus

Officials say this is the first infant born in the U.S. with a birth defect associated with the mosquito-borne illness

• Jan 18, 2016

Pregnant women warned about Zika virus

Virus linked to birth defects prompts CDC to advise expecting mothers not to travel to certain Latin American countries

• Jan 16, 2016

CDC: Evidence may link mosquito-borne virus, birth defects

U.S. health officials find worrying signs that the Zika virus may harm unborn babies; a "pandemic in progress"

• Jan 13, 2016

Mosquito-borne Zika virus raises fears of birth defects

Rapidly spreading virus is detected in Puerto Rico; outbreak in Brazil has mothers "almost panicky"

• Jan 1, 2016