World Health Organization data and news from the South American countries indicate, especially Brazil to a huge increase in the number of cases of infection Zika, which led to the injury of thousands of people until the middle of the first month of 2016, and the Brazilian government has been forced to deploy 200,000 soldiers to help in the fight against the spread of the mosquitoes that transmit the virus in urban and rural areas in Brazil.
Zika virus is spread through the bite of a mosquito known as (Aedes aegypti) to humans. And mosquitoes transmit the virus from the blood of an infected person to the virus to others.
Symptoms of the disease:
Causing virus in an infected person and in most cases a simple symptoms almost do not notice, so a rise in a limited body heat and redness of the eyes, and pain in the joints, and keep the virus latent in an infected person with the emergence of autoimmunity against the virus, but this immunity does not eliminate entirely the virus in the patient's body and blood of the injured remain a source of infection to others for a short or long between one person and another.
The seriousness of the virus:
The danger of this virus that is transmitted from the blood of the mother infected with the virus during pregnancy to the fetus, as well as during breastfeeding, causing inflammation and damage to the membrane fetal brain, leading to brain atrophy, her mother gives birth in a head oblate and small, and this in the future affect the child's intelligence and his body is some kind of physical disability. As can be the virus from an infected man turns to his wife through sexual contact
The original source of the virus:
The origin of the virus back to the group of viruses that cause yellow fever, which is usually spread in a number of central African countries. And the name of the virus due to the area in Uganda; where the virus first appeared among monkeys, and then go to human in 1947, where it was discovered.
Anti-virus infections:
- Prevention of infection with the virus depends on the ways to prevent the spread of mosquitoes in stagnant water pools in homes, gardens, and you must kill the mosquito eggs with pesticides and best use of kerosene.
- It can be deployed type of genetically modified mosquitoes to prevent mosquito breeding mosquitoes in endemic areas.
- Preferably like the yellow fever vaccine is an effective vaccine against the virus manufacture.
Finally, believed to be infected persons came from African countries carried in their blood the virus to the countries of South America, is also believed to changing weather conditions in the world have helped the spread of mosquitoes that carry the virus, it does not rule out that the virus is spreading in other parts of the world if you did not stop the spread of the virus in mosquitoes and South America as soon as possible. It is important to know that any infected person Zika virus can transmit the virus to other parts of the world if there is a suitable mosquito or by contact with infected blood or sexual contact.
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