The World Health Organization (WHO), the outbreak of the zikavirus Monday billed as a global public health emergency. Experts fear that the virus is spreading widely and rapidly, with devastating consequences.
WHO Director Margaret Chan said that an internationally coordinated response is necessary, although there are no restrictions needed for travelers and trade. By labeling the spread of the virus as the World Health Organization emergency plans to accelerate international action against the zikavirus.
The World Health Organization (WHO) arrived Monday met in an emergency meeting. The WHO provides three to four million cases of infection on the continent, particularly in Brazil. There is no vaccine against the zikavirus and according to experts, which will this year not more. The only way to prevent getting bitten is transferring through the so-called Aedes mosquitoes, which the infection.
More than twenty countries
Zika virus is in the same category posted as international concerns about Ebola last year. Meanwhile the Zikavirus been established in 21 countries, almost all in Latin America. Most infections are mild and cause few or no symptoms, although some cases of a rare paralysis disorder:. Called Guillain-Barre syndrome
The Brazilian Health Minister Marcelo Castro said Monday in an interview that the outbreak of the Zika virus is more serious than previously thought, because in 80 percent of cases, people have no symptoms. Castro says that Brazil begins next week with the compulsory leave reporting the zikavirus by local authorities. In most places are laboratories able to test for the virus, which is spread by mosquitoes.
fever to microcephaly
When walking along the Zikavirus, struggling with fever, rash, eye inflammation, joint pain and headache. There is no cure, but patients are usually within a week on their complaints. ,, Some people develop not even upset, ” said mosquito expert Bart Knols. That is ,, at the same time the problem. If you drink a cappuccino sitting and being stung by a mosquito on the terrace you can unknowingly transmit the virus. ”
The virus is dangerous for unborn children. It is suspected that caused the microcephaly. Babies are born with an abnormally small skull and walk brain damage. Only in Brazil are now more than four thousand suspected cases of microcephaly found.
Brain Malformations
zikavirus can lead in unborn children to brain disorders such as microcephaly. The skull is too small so that the brains do not develop properly and the child may be handicapped. According to Minister Castro, there have been 3700 confirmed and suspected cases of newborns with brain abnormalities in Brazil.
Fear of skull defects in their babies terminate many infected pregnant women, doctors report in Brazil. In Colombia it has been officially accepted that pregnant women have the virus undergo an abortion. Colombia advises women who want a baby to delay pregnancy. Are expected in the country to 700,000 infections.
The Dutch action group Woman on Web has pregnant women from Latin America who zika virus have offered a free abortion. If women can show that they are medically infected with the virus, they will receive a package with abortion pills.
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