While “no scientific evidence to date confirms a link between Zika virus and microcephaly or GBS”, the agency pointed out that GBS was also observed during the 2013-14 Zika virus outbreak in French Polynesia. To date, 462 cases of microcephaly have been confirmed in Brazil.
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An army soldier distributes a pamphlet about the Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads the Zika virus on the edge of the Copacabana beach, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, Feb. 13, 2016.
According to the BBC, the exercise is aimed at boosting morale.
There is no vaccine or treatment for Zika, and prevention efforts focus on protecting people from mosquitoes and reducing mosquito populations.
Alarm in recent months over the Zika virus, which many researchers believe can cause microcephaly in the fetuses of pregnant women, has prompted calls, both inside and outside Brazil, to loosen a near-ban on abortion in the world’s most populous Catholic country.
Cases of the virus total 31,555, the institute said in a epidemiology bulletin, among them 5,013 pregnant women.
But if an employer does restrict business travel to affected countries, all employees should be restricted – not just pregnant women, he said.
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Only a day ago, Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, took to the national television network to announce startling new statistics of the Zika Virus in the country. But there have been reports of birth problems, including an apparent spike in microcephaly cases in Brazil, a defect in which a baby’s head is smaller than expected.
“Right now, we know it’s in the blood for a very limited period of time, measured in a week to at most 10 days”.
The Zika virus was first identified in Uganda in 1947 and subsequently spread to parts of Asia. Colombia last week said three people had died after contracting the Zika virus and developing Guillain-Barre syndrome, a rare disorder in which the immune system attacks the nervous system causing weakness and sometimes paralysis.
The CDC said that around 80 percent of infected adults show no symptoms, while others can have fever, skin rashes, joint pain and conjunctivitis.
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The symptoms of the virus are similar to the dengue virus, only milder, according to health officials.
