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Zika virus
Zika virus is a new virus belongs to the family Flaviviridae and is classified within the genus yellowish virus, the virus transmitted by mosquito bites
Causing virus in humans mild disease known as Zika fever, it has spread significantly between the years 1960 in the tropics in both Africa and Asia, and in 2014, the virus has spread eastward across the Pacific and then to French Polynesia, and in in 2015, the disease has spread in Mexico and America Central America and the Caribbean, and South America, so it was identified the disease as a disease epidemic, in 2016 issued a US Centers for disease Control and prevention (CDC) travel advisories for countries and countries with epidemiology, and countries such as Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, as well as Jamaica and directed tips to women postpone pregnancy paid tribute to recognize the risk of disease, in this issue we will try to identify this new epidemic and its modes of transmission and the risks to human health
First mode of transmission of the virus Zika
Zika virus is transmitted by mosquitoes during the day periods, especially of the genus Alzaj mosquitoes, such as Aedes aegypti, the mosquito is the tree like kind of Africa, is the Aedes aegypti carrier's most visible and widespread, citing the virus
He appeared that Zika virus can be transmitted between humans through sexual contact, in 2009, found that Zika virus has moved from Brian Foy (and Hoaalm neighborhoods in Colorado State University) to his wife through sexual contact
Some cases that confirm the possibility of transmission of the virus through the placenta appeared, which affects the fetus, who was not yet born, in 2015, it was revealed the existence of Zika virus in the amniotic fluid, indicating that the virus may cross through the placenta
Symptoms of infection Zika
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Zika Zika fever virus or disease, leads to symptoms such as fever, malaise, rash and conjunctivitis as well as headache and pain in muscles and joints, and often these symptoms are mild and last for a period of between two to seven days
Microcephaly or congenital deformity : the steepest Zika virus damage to human health, and found that placental infection of the fetus Zika virus may lead to atrophy and damage to the brain, where they found some of the cases have been confirmed HIV transmission from mother to child and thus injury to children its small head congenital
Neurological complications: During the French Polynesian and B, was discovered 73 infected with Guillain-Barre syndrome case, also called acute demyelinating nerves Nkhaaan, a multi-symmetrically acquired neurological illness that affects the nerve roots and then moves to the injury of peripheral nerves
It leads to paralysis in the infected parts and then extends to all parts of the body at this stage of severe acute respiratory nerve disease leads to the removal of myelin membrane surrounding nerves, which were considered these cases neurological complications of HIV Zika in the French Polynesian
Zika virus treatment
Nikon said Vassilakis of biodefense center that Zika virus vaccine will take years to develop, there may be a need for 10 or 12 years before the completion of an effective vaccine for general use stainless virus Zika
