Zika virus spreads across Americas as concerns mount over birth defects
O Dyer - 2015 - bmj.com
O Dyer
2015•bmj.comWhile a vaccine for dengue virus was approved this week in Mexico and the Philippines,
dengue's lesser known cousin the Zika virus has ballooned into a public health crisis across
large parts of Latin America.Zika's rapid geographic spread would be causing less concern
to public health authorities were it not for worrying evidence that the disease is less benign
than initially thought. Hundreds of cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome have sprung up in the
wake of Zika infection, but it is an explosion of microcephaly among infants born to infected …
dengue's lesser known cousin the Zika virus has ballooned into a public health crisis across
large parts of Latin America.Zika's rapid geographic spread would be causing less concern
to public health authorities were it not for worrying evidence that the disease is less benign
than initially thought. Hundreds of cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome have sprung up in the
wake of Zika infection, but it is an explosion of microcephaly among infants born to infected …
While a vaccine for dengue virus was approved this week in Mexico and the Philippines, dengue’s lesser known cousin the Zika virus has ballooned into a public health crisis across large parts of Latin America.
Zika’s rapid geographic spread would be causing less concern to public health authorities were it not for worrying evidence that the disease is less benign than initially thought. Hundreds of cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome have sprung up in the wake of Zika infection, but it is an explosion of microcephaly among infants born to infected women that has caused Brazil to declare Zika a “public health emergency of national importance.”
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