The mosquito Aedes aegypti is a spreader of Zika virus. Jeffrey Arguedas/EPA hide caption
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Monday
Lindomar Pena, a virologist at a lab in Recife, Brazil, holds a box of vials used to store samples of the Zika virus in huge freezers. Catherine Osborn/For NPR hide caption
Reporting On The Zika Virus Means Getting Up Close And Personal
Saba, 18, eloped with her fiance, which her family regarded as bringing shame upon them. So her father and uncle tried to kill her. Courtesy of HBO hide caption
She Survived An 'Honor Killing': Oscar-Winning Documentary Airs Tonight
Mosquito larvae fill the cup of stale water that entomologist Luis Hernandez dips from a stack of old tires in a suburb of San Juan, Puerto Rico. Greg Allen/NPR hide caption
Puerto Rico Races To Stop Zika's Mosquitoes Before Rains Begin
Sunday
Researcher Beatriz Parra Patino (right) prepares to test the blood and urine of patients with Guillain-Barre syndrome to see if they had Zika virus as well. She's been working seven days a week, up to 14 hours a day, to test samples as quickly as possible. Becky Sullivan/NPR hide caption
The Answer To A Zika Mystery Could Lie In Test Tubes In Colombia
Garmai Sumo is a nurse featured in the documentary, Body Team 12. In one scene, she shares her religious views: "When they die, the righteous will resurrect on the day of the trumpet. But everyone remain in their grave for now." Body Team 12 hide caption
Saturday
In Joshua Oppenheimer's documentary The Look of Silence, an Indonesian optometrist offers forgiveness to his older brother's killers — if they'll admit to the deed. Courtesy of Drafthouse Films and Participant Media hide caption
Friday
Previous experience with dengue outbreaks in Puerto Rico has shown that even small amounts of standing water — as in the vases of cemeteries — can serve as breeding areas for the mosquitoes that carry dengue and Zika. Pan American Health Organization/Flickr hide caption
The town of Bentiu, in South Sudan, has been nearly abandoned. On the main road, a boy hides behind a telephone pole. David Gilkey/NPR hide caption
Living In A Camp By A Ruined City, They're Strangers In Their Own Land
Thursday
Why Scientists Hope To Inject Some People With Zika Virus
Dr. Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu is one of this year's winners of the Elsevier Foundation Award for female scientists in the developing world. Victoria Sarno Jordan/NPR hide caption
Marcia Andrade, an agent from Brazil's Ministry of Health, interviews Camila Alves, 22. A friend holds Alves' 2-month-old daughter. Catherine Osborn for NPR hide caption
Disease Detectives In Brazil Go Door-To-Door To Solve Zika Mystery
Wednesday
Protected from bites by a mosquito net, this pregnant woman, in her second trimester, came into the hospital in Cucuta, Colombia, with symptoms of Zika. A blood test is being run to find out if she has the virus. Nurith Aizenman/NPR hide caption
All Eyes Are On Colombia: Will Zika Trigger A Spike In Microcephaly?
A goat locked in a car in a Massachusetts parking lot got its moment of YouTube fame courtesy of a passerby's video. YouTube hide caption
Tuesday
Particles of Zika virus are colored red in this transmission electron micrograph. CDC hide caption