The symptoms of Zika infection are generally mild, although in pregnant women it can cause brain malformations and other defects in unborn children.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed concern about the Zika epidemic, which is spread by mosquito bites.
After the case was confirmed, members from the Tennessee Department of Health and WEMA went door-to-door this morning within a 200-yard radius – the recommended treatment distance – of the infected individual’s residence to inform the community about the confirmed case. But most people won’t know they have it.
In the Friday meeting, Dr Salama also said the Brazilian government has “a very similar model” to Singapore’s approach, and has been “very successfully giving (the WHO) quick and comprehensive reporting”.
Singapore confirms 27 more locally transmitted Zika cases was posted in Health of TheNews International – https://www.thenews.com.pk on September 05, 2016 and was last updated on September 05, 2016.
The Malaysian woman had made a brief trip in late August to visit her daughter, who has already been confirmed as having the Zika virus, Malaysia’s health ministry said in a statement.
Zika is spread by mosquitoes and sexual contact.
NEA added that its officers and grassroots volunteers have completed outreach efforts to distribute Zika information leaflets in the Aljunied Crescent/Sims Drive cluster, and have begun their outreach in the expanded cluster areas in Paya Lebar Way/Kallang Way. But in pregnant women, it can cause microcephaly, a deformation in which babies are born with abnormally small brains and heads.
More than 1,400 cases of microcephaly in babies have been linked to Zika in Brazil.
The United States and Britain have joined Australia and Taiwan in advising pregnant women to avoid non-essential travel to Singapore, while a local health expert has warned the infection rate would rise.
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According to scientists writing in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, more than two billion people could be at risk from Zika virus outbreaks in parts of Africa and Asia. Earlier this year, the World Health Organization declared the virus -mainly spread by the bite of the Aedes mosquito and sometimes sexual transmission – an global health emergency.
