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Zika Virus What Next It is officially announced, there is a global health emergency... World Health Organisation (WHO) has just issued this health warning... The rapid spread of the Zika Virus is an international public health emergency.. From its first outbreak was detected in Brazil in May last year... This mosquito borne disease now threatens in more than 20 countries.... Latest to join the strickened Latin American countries are Costa Rica and Jamaica. The science behind the global outbreak of this disease is of much concern... For the Zika Virus was first encountered in a rhesus macaque monkey in Uganda.. It is very worrisome, for this disease has jumped from animals to humans... The rapid spread was in part due to the lack of immunity in our species... It is after all a virus that profilerated before only in the monkey species.... Its drastic spread in the Latin Americans now necessitates travel advisories... Once afflicted, a human victim suffers 2-7 days of low grade fever, joint pains.. No fatalities yet, but symptomatic patients suffers a facial rash that spreads ... Diagnosis is tricky, its symptons easily confused with other mosquito diseases... But the greatest danger is threat of brain damage and microcephaly in new born babies... And the spread of the virus through sexual contact and the blood stream is for real... Prevention is better than cure, so is precaution before things get out of hand.. The common denominator in the rapid widespread of this scourge is a pesky insect... One tiny little hellish insect with little wings that stridently brings victims into contact... A little nip from an infected insect, the Zika virus is introduced into the victim's blood stream.. This dangerous little pesky insect is none other than the common mosquito... To be specific it is the tiger stripped and blood thirsty Aedes mosquito... Prevalently found in early morning hours and in the late afternoon daylight hours ... Get the bug spray, the insect repellant and out with the electric killer bat... Do whatever it takes, so long you escape from the irritating mosquito bites.. Kill the Aedes mosquitoes, and save yourself from Zika, dengue or chingkunya virus... http://www.webmd.com/news/20160203/zika-microcephaly-link http://www.futurity.org/zika-microcephaly-1115772-2/
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