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ZIKA virus and the Olympics 2016

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Vladimir Andreevich Didenko

Statistics suggest the largest virus epidemic in the history of Brazil. Zika virus is incurable.

В Бразилии продолжает расти количество случаев микроэнцефалии – рождения детей с очень маленькой головой от матерей, Zika virus infected. Since October, according to new statistics of such cases has been registered about four thousand. Over the past week, their number has grown by approximately 400.

Statistics suggest the largest virus epidemic in the history of Brazil. Zika virus is incurable. Today the only way to confront it is spread around its fight mosquitoes.

As reported by the Health Ministry of the country, already registered in Brazil 5 deaths from the virus in babies. Even in the 44 cases of child death experts only allow, that the cause could be a virus Zika.

Doctors are sounding the alarm and in neighbouring Colombia, where the number of cases exceeds the virus 13,000, and in Bolivia, where the virus has recently been discovered in a pregnant woman.

With the increase in the number of cases the virus last Friday, the Centre for combating viral diseases of the United States recommended that pregnant women do not travel in Latin America, where documented cases of the disease virus.
Alert regarding Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, French Guiana, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname, Venezuela and Puerto Rico, – сообщает ВВС.

Holiday sports close, and the African virus èbole, already sneaks ZIKA at the eve of the Olympics.

Published by
Vladimir Andreevich Didenko

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