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(Reuters) — South Korea reported its first confirmed case of the Zika virus on Tuesday (March 22) in a 43-year old male who have travelled to Brazil, its center for disease control said. “This patient is the first Zika virus-infected patient in South Korea. However, the fever has subsided,” said Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Jung Ki-suck at a news conference. “The patient is a 43 year-old-male. He visited Brazil for 22 […]
MANILA, Philippines – Presidential Communications Secretary Sonny Coloma clarified the statement made by the Department of Health that it is expecting that the Philippines will be included in the Level 2 travel alert of the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention. According to Coloma, if ever the Philippines is included in the said travel alert, said inclusion is based only on the case of an American woman who contracted Zika virus in the […]
MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Health responded to a post made by a doctor in the social media, saying that the allegations of the said post is not true. According to the said post, microcephaly cases in the Philippines were caused by the Zika virus, which was promptly denied by the DOH. The DOH added that of the 700 suspected Zika virus case in the Philippines, all tested negative. (Eagle News Service Described by […]
MANILA, Mar. 16 — The Department of Health (DOH) recently called on all pregnant women to be more careful against mosquito bites especially during daytime. DOH also encourages those with fever, rashes and conjunctivitis to immediately consult doctors to ease apprehensions over catching the Zika virus. “Pregnant women should be wary about mosquito bites because although the Zika infection is asymptomatic in 80% of cases and most of the time self-limiting, the effect on the […]
https://youtu.be/l-jFCIUl6ww by Agnès PEDRERO GENEVA Switzerland (AFP) — Global health experts agreed Wednesday to prioritize developing vaccines against the Zika virus suspected of causing birth defects, but a Brazilian specialist warned that doing so would take at least three years. “Perhaps in three years we will have a vaccine,” Jorge Kalil, head of the Butantan Institute in Sao Paulo, told reporters in Geneva, acknowledging that even that estimate was “optimistic”. He was among global health […]
GENEVA, Switzerland – The World Health Organization released new guidelines regarding mosquito control due to the continued spread of the zika virus. Said guidelines focused on the use of insecticides, as well as destruction of breeding sites. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Jericho Morales, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos) https://youtu.be/ZFZN2ZjZX3w
MANILA, March 8 – The Department of Health is closely coordinating with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US-CDC) for the profile of the patient confirmed to have Zika virus, and the places she visited in the Philippines. “We were informed that shortly after returning home to the US, an evidence of Zika virus infection was detected from the patient,” Health Secretary Janette P. Loreto-Garin said. The Department of Health disclosed a report […]
by Marlowe HOOD PARIS, France (AFP) — Scientists on Tuesday said they had confirmed that the Zika virus sweeping Latin America and blamed for severe birth defects can also trigger a dangerous neurological disorder. In a study published in the medical journal The Lancet, a team probed Zika’s suspected role in a 2013-2014 outbreak in French Polynesia of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) — a rare condition in which the body’s immune system attacks a part of […]
TOKYO, Japan (Reuters) — Japan’s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on Friday (February 26) said Japan had little to worry about after a male teenager near Tokyo was found to have been infected with the Zika virus. “It is not yet the season for mosquitoes to be active in our nation, so there is little concern that this case will trigger a large scale infectIon. However the government has held meetings to decide supplementary steps […]
Nag-babala ang World Health Organization na maaaring lumala ang Zika virus bago pa ito humupa. Sinabi ni ni WHO Director-General Margaret Chan sa kanyang dalawang araw na pagbisita sa Brazil, ang sentro ng Zika outbreak. Aniya, hindi na dapat ikagulat ang mga susunod na Microcephaly reports sa Brazil. Bukod sa Microcephaly, pinag-aaralan din ang posibleng koneksyon ng Zika virus sa guillain-barre, isang disorder na nagpa-pahina ng muscles at sanhi ng paralysis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws0QAIRH6-Q
QUEZON City, Philippines — Tumaas ng tatlumpu’t pitong libo katao ang na-infect ng Zika virus sa Colombia. Kinumpirma naman ng China ang ikatlong imported case ng Zika virus sa kanilang bansa. https://youtu.be/q2Ey3ik82f4
WHO: “Mga bansa, kailangang mamuhunan sa health system para labanan ang Zika Virus” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2eBEyFLykM
