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Ten Items on Zika Virus and Brazil

Sunday, 24th of January 2016 Print

Ten Items on Zika Virus and Brazil

Those unpersuaded of the ability of pathogens to spread quickly and unpredictably across national and continental borders are referred to item 8, on Zika transmission from French Polynesia to Brazil. Pathogens thought to be local end up having a cosmopolitan transmission, limited only, in the case of Zika virus, by the distribution of their associated vectors, Aedes spp. My compatriots are reminded of the distribution of Aedes in the American Southeast and Puerto Rico.

The association between Zika virus contracted in pregnancy and microcephaly is strong, and by no means reassuring in the country which will host the Olympics this August.

Mosquito vector control in Brazil goes back to the 1930s. Is it time to dust off the old mosquito control manuals and put them into practice?  Those interested in vector control may wish to consult http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=5464

Good reading.

BD

 

Article Title

No of Hits
  1. Zika virus in Brazil and the danger of infestation by Aedes (Stegomyia) mosquitoes

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=5375

187
  1. Zika virus outbreaks in the Americas

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=5430

54
  1. Zika virus infection in a traveller returning to Europe from Brazil, March 2015

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=5433

52
  1. Zika Virus in the Americas — Yet Another Arbovirus Threat

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=5435

50
  1. First report of autochthonous transmission of Zika virus in Brazil

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=5432

 

46
  1. Outbreak of Exanthematous Illness Associated with Zika, Chikungunya, and Dengue Viruses, Salvador, Brazil

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=5429

41
  1. Rapid risk assessment: Zika virus epidemic in the Americas: potential association with microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=5461

33
  1. Zika Virus Transmission from French Polynesia to Brazil

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=5431

31
  1. Anticipating the international spread of Zika virus from Brazil

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=5454

25

10.  Zika virus in Brazil and the danger of infestation by Aedes (Stegomyia) mosquitoes

http://www.childsurvival.net/?content=com_articles&artid=5470

 

20

 

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