Health authorities in Brazil are by all means in the back to prevent an outbreak of yellow fever assumes epidemic proportions. The dangerous infectious disease has taken so far certainly seventy people, of whom forty are deceased.
After zikavirus now concern an outbreak of yellow fever in Brazil, especially in the state of Minas Gerais. The Ministry of Health there has registered in recent weeks, 272 suspected cases of yellow fever, of which 71 were fatal. The authorities have more than 2 million doses of vaccine available to prevent further spread of the disease.
In Texas, the first Monday of infection determined by the zikavirus, which is very likely carried by a native mosquito. This is the disease that can cause birth defects again more widespread on the mainland of the United States.
In Brazil, the number of infections increased dramatically with the chikungunya virus. In the country this year registered more than 251,000 cases of illness. This was announced by the Brazilian Ministry of Health Thursday.
The World Health Organization considers the zikavirus no longer as an international health threat. However, the WHO sees the virus and the disorders that can cause it as a permanent source of research and action.
The European Commission is EUR 45 million for research into the zikavirus and other infectious diseases that are spread by mosquitoes. The money will be invested in research into treatments, diagnostics and vaccines, made EU Commissioner Carlos Moedas (Research, Science and Innovation) Friday.
The Thai Ministry of Health confirmed Friday that two women have borne children with little skulls after they were infected during their pregnancy with zikavirus.
"The district in Miami this summer was startled by a sudden outbreak of the zikavirus, no longer applies as endangered area. Wynwood in the past 45 days, no new cases of infection detected. Has announced that the governor of Florida, Rick Scott, Monday. The neighborhood is thus officially zikavrij."
A new study has found genetic fragments of the zikavirus in the tear fluid of infected laboratory mice. The discovery may reject new light on how people become infected with the dreaded pathogen. So far it was assumed that the transfer was done by mosquitoes and in some cases by sexual contact.
US health authorities advise against pregnant women traveling to Miami Beach because of the presence of the zikavirus. According to the health CDC should pregnant and keep their sexual partners all consider away from Miami-Dade County.
Puerto Rico is a state of emergency declared by the widespread dissemination of the zikavirus,, represents a substantial threat 'to public health in the US territory. This was announced by the US Department of Health Friday (local time).
US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called on MPs in her country to interrupt their summer break. She wants them to return to Washington to vote on a bill yet, that money frees to combat the zikavirus. Clinton made her appeal Tuesday after she had visited a hospital in Miami in the US state of Florida.
To zikavirus to suppress, the authorities are in the US state of Florida mosquito that spreads the virus since Thursday from the air. The area near the city of Miami where the virus has been detected, is sprayed with an insecticide.
Thirty soldiers from the US Army infected with zikavirus. They have the infection contracted in overseas countries where the virus has been identified, CNN reported Wednesday according to a Pentagon spokesman.
Pregnant women may be better not to an area near the US city of Miami travel related to the zikavirus there. The warning from US health authorities Monday following the discovery of ten new infections in the region in Florida.
Four Florida residents in their own state the zikavirus incurred by mosquito bites. They walked the contamination in an area near Miami Dade County. There are three men and a woman, who have not been out of the country and the infection does not have contracted through sexual contact.
Tens of thousands of babies will be born with the possible zikavirus related microcephaly. Which scientists predict in the journal Nature Microbiology.
In Spain, the first baby born at the zikavirus related microcephaly. That is an abnormality of the central nervous system that causes too small skull size and lagging development of the brains.
The possible transfer of the zikavirus by indigenous mosquitoes has rung alarm bells in the White House.
In the past two weeks has seen in more than ten people in the Netherlands zikavirus. This has totaled more than seventy people the virus this year, of whom a small number of pregnant women.
It takes up to two to three years before the zika epidemic in Latin America is over. By that time, many people have been already sick and thus become immune. Then there are too few survivors in order to maintain the large-scale distribution. The epidemic extinguishes itself, say British scientists Thursday.
A patient age who died in Utah City last month was infected with the zikavirus. This was announced by the health authority of the US State Friday in Salt Lake City. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the positive test. The elderly woman had the infection on to traveling in a country where the mosquitoes that transmit the dangerous virus are active.
Two experimental vaccines against the dreaded zikavirus have been successfully tested on mice. After a single injection, the rodents were found fully protected when they are one or two months later were exposed to the virus that is transmitted by mosquitoes stabbing.
The White House and Congress dominated by Republicans are at loggerheads over the approach of the zikavirus. Republicans want to allocate 1.1 billion dollars (nearly 900 million euros) to fight the virus and to prevent its effects. President Barack Obama had requested almost double.
,, There is a very low risk 'of further spread of the zikavirus by the Olympics in Brazil, the heart of the current outbreak. That said, experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday.
The development of a vaccine against the zikavirus is a lot faster than expected. Where previously it was assumed that it would be at least twelve months before a vaccine is ready, it is expected to last nine months.,, That's a record time '', reported the Brazilian Health Minister Ricardo Barros.
The zikavirus which can lead to serious defects in unborn babies, is it surfaced first in Africa. That the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Africa, Matshidiso Moeti said Friday. The dreaded virus that Latin America and Brazil in particular has made, according to state Moeti now on the doorstep of Africa.
Members of the Australian Olympic team who travel to Brazil for the Olympics, get special condoms that protect them against zikavirus. The initiative comes from an Australian pharmacy and condom manufacturer Ansell. The condoms have double protection and special lubricant, so the risk of infection is much smaller.
For the first time anyone in Germany infected with the zikavirus by sex. German media reported Friday on the authority of the medical Robert Koch Institute that it is a couple whose husband was recently in Puerto Rico. It might be very dangerous virus is in the first place, spread by a gelekoortsmug. Patients are usually in countries where this insect was present and there have contracted the virus.
In Spain, the first event of the birth defect microcephaly established by a pregnant woman who was infected with the zikavirus. According to the health authorities in Spain thirteen women who have contracted the virus spread by mosquitoes while traveling abroad, but are otherwise not shown any abnormalities in them.
