Brazil orders doctors to report Zika cases

Feb 19, 2016, 15:05
Brazil orders doctors to report Zika cases

More alarming, however, is the virus' suspected role in causing microcephaly among newborns if their mother catches the virus while pregnant.

The additional Zika case brings the total in Florida to 22- Alachua (1), Brevard (1), Broward (4), Hillsborough (3), Lee (3), Miami-Dade (7), Osceola (1), Santa Rosa (1) and St. Johns (1).

"The ICAO is collaborating with the World Health Organization to ensure the aviation sector plays an important role in minimising the risk of spreading the disease internationally and travellers becoming infected especially women who may be pregnant", Hotchkiss explained.

The Ministry of Health on Tuesday said Vietnam has imported more than 9,000 kilograms of pyriproxyfen, a chemical used to kill mosquito larvae and recently linked to microcephaly, a condition wherein babies are born with abnormally small heads.

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Nevertheless, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put Costa Rica on its travel watch list for the virus after it detected Zika in a U.S. man who had visited Costa Rica in January.

"Until we understand the biological mechanism linking Zika virus to microcephaly, we can not be certain that one causes the other".

Castro said Brazil was making the reporting of all Zika cases mandatory, a step that had not been taken before due to the lack of kits to test for Zika.

The virus has been linked to severe birth defects in thousands of babies in Brazil. The WHO expects the funds to come from states and other donors and said that in the meantime it has tapped a new emergency contingency fund for $2 million for initial operations.

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"The time to see some cases has passed", he said.

"Our analysis underscores the importance of urgent action to halt the spread of the Zika virus and to protect the health and well being of people in the affected countries", World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said in a statement. The women presented with symptoms of Zika infection during the first trimester of their pregnancies and ultrasounds confirmed the foetuses had microcephaly. Studies of this sort can show an association between Zika and microcephaly but cannot show that Zika virus definitely caused the microcephaly.

South Korea has so far had no confirmed Zika virus cases. It also said it would use the money to promote access to family planning, and to provide prenatal care for Zika-infected pregnant women and postnatal care for babies in the event of neurological complications.

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