Health officials are also investigating 40 suspicious deaths of microcephaly related to Zika virus.
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Brazilian health officials are urging all citizens to combat the root cause of the epidemic by eliminating any standing water that could breed mosquitoes.
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From the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, a great review and resource on Zika virus in Brazil and its possible association to microcephaly. The association between the two is under investigation and whether there is an ongoing public health emergency in Brazil remains to be determined. The warning comes after a significant rise in cases of newborn microcephaly this year, with 2,400 cases in 2015 compared to 2014’s 147. Because the mosquitoes that spread Zika virus are throughout the world, it is likely that outbreaks will spread to new countries. Since its arrival in South America this year, the virus has infected more than 84,000 people in Brazil. The total number of infections in Brazil is sketchy, but estimates range from half a million to over 1.3 million cases. One such state is Pernambuco in the Northeast region.
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The Zika virus – which experts say has not yet reached Jamaican shores but is moving through sections of the Americas, as well as the chikungunya virus and dengue – are spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
The Zika viral disease is characterized by fever, rash, arthralgia, headache, myalgia, asthenia and non-purulent conjunctivitis. She said she was trying to avoid mosquito bites by wearing long trousers despite the heat of the Southern Hemisphere summer and applying insect repellent every three hours. Malaria rates spiked, for example, in Brazil after the country banned the use of DDT, the insecticide that almost eradicated the Malaria virus during the 1960s. Now, at a time when President Dilma Rousseff’s beleaguered government is under fire over corruption, an economic crisis and its handling of the surge in dengue cases, the spread of Zika is unleashing even more criticism. It’s a virus we don’t know that much about. But some suggest the rise in mosquito-borne illnesses like dengue and Zika may be due, in part, to climate change.
“The mosquito is exquisitely adapted to human hosts, living in close proximity to humans and feeding repeatedly”, said Maria Diuk-Wasser, a scholar at Columbia University.
Zika is usually mild with symptoms lasting from several days to a week.
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Paula Moura contributed reporting from São Paulo and Vinod Sreeharsha from Rio de Janeiro.
