Twenty-one cases of Zika virus infection have been recorded in central Bangkok, according to reports.
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Nila added that Zika virus wis harmless when compared with dengue fever and dengue fever can be very deadly if the patients do not get medical assistance immediately. The babies of the mothers who had Zika while pregnant causes the infant to have microcephaly.
She began to suffer from rashes, joint pains, headaches and conjunctivitis on September 1.
The UW-led researchers were able to respond swiftly because Adams Waldorf and Rajagopal were part of a larger team already studying infections such as Group B streptococcus in pregnancy.
Anyone concerned about getting Zika from sex can use condoms the right way every time they have vaginal, anal or oral (mouth-to-penis) sex or can practice abstinence.
“This is the first animal model that is sufficiently close to human pregnancy that we can feel confident that a successful therapy will also work in humans”, co-author Kristina Adams Waldorf, also of UW, told AFP. The 27-year old woman, who is between three and four months pregnant, lives in Johor, a southern city right across the border to Singapore.
For fetuses that have been affected by the Zika virus, brain development is affected by limiting the size of the fetus’ head. The number of Zika positive pregnancies is 200.
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“It’s going to have to be a vaccine or a prophylactic”, she said. In addition, they found that the Zika viral genome was also present in other fetal tissues including, eye, liver, and kidney.
Funding, however, continues to be an obstacle. The virus, which spreads through infected mosquito bite, has, since then, spread to the Americas. The pregnant animal did not show any significant symptoms of infection, such as fever or rash.
Funds for the UW study, which cost an estimated $200,000, were diverted from other research, investigators said.
Some athletes chose to pull out of the Games over Zika concerns. Singapore confirmed that there is a total of 329 Zika cases in the country making the World Health Organization (WHO) worry about the matter.
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“Of the 21 cases confirmed in the Sathon area there was one pregnant woman who recovered and gave birth successfully”. “They don’t know how risky the epidemic is”.
