There have been no confirmed cases of the Zika virus in Fiji and the Pacific this year.
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While this virus is not new, it is new to the Americas.
“The appropriate surveillance/response mechanisms for Zika virus infection and birth-defect complications will soon be operational at the ministry”. Many women, especially those living far away from large cities, find it hard to find legal abortion providers.
The announcement comes after the World Health Organization (WHO) warned this week that the virus is “spreading explosively” across the Americas, predicting three to four million cases this year. “She recovered completely and went back to work”, said Dr. Horacio Arruda.
“We need to take actions now”, Chan said, referring to the condition called microcephaly in which babies were born with abnormally small heads and brains that have not developed properly.
The number of pregnant women in Colombia with the zika virus has doubled in a week to almost 2000, health officials say.
Thirty-one Americans have been diagnosed with a Zika infection.
This makes it very hard for pregnant women to figure out whether they have been infected or not.
Public health officials say the risk for Canadians is low and limited to those who travel or live in regions where the virus is circulating.
The virus was first isolated from monkeys in Uganda in 1947, but it has never caused an outbreak of this magnitude in humans.
Since May 2015 when zika began surfacing in northeast Brazil, over 300,000 cases have been registered in Latin America.
“The symptoms are common symptoms; fever, joint pain, pink-eye and a rash”. “Only about one in five individuals gets those symptoms but those would be the things a provider would be looking at”.
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The CDC says that the Zika Virus will continue to spread and it will be hard determine how it will spread over time.
