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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
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