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The Latin American and Caribbean States Community (CELAC) has decided to assemble all health departments of its member countries to deal with the outbreak of the Zika virus, which has been linked with birth defects and the paralysis-causing Guillain-Barre syndrome across many Latin American countries. The President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos made the above remarks at a press conference at the CELAC summit in the Ecuadorian capital Quito on Wednesday. Santos said CELAC countries […]
Hilda Venancio da Silva holds nurses her three-month-old son Matheus, born in October with microcephaly, a tragic neurological complication linked to Zika, the mosquito-borne virus sparking a health scare across the Americas. But she is not alone. In the hospital where he was born, dozens of other mothers also gave birth to infants with abnormally small heads. More than 1,000 cases of microcephaly have been reported in just a few months in Pernambuco state, the […]
The Department of Health (DOH) is ready and on alert to prevent the spread of the zika virus in the Philippines. Said virus is already rampant in Latin America and is known to cause brain damage. (Eagle News Service Described by Jay Paul Carlos, Video Editing by Dexter Magno, Uploaded by MRFaith Bonalos)
There is currently “no justification” for asking Mexican women to postpone getting pregnant because of an outbreak of the mosquito-born virus Zika, a senior Mexican Health Ministry official said during an interview with Reuters on Tuesday (January 26). Zika, which has spread across the Americas, has been linked to brain damage in thousands of babies in Brazil, leading health authorities in Colombia and El Salvador to advise women against getting pregnant for anywhere up to […]
Brazilian officials have stepped up efforts to battle the rapid spread of the mosquito-borne Zika virus linked to the alarming surge infants born with serious brain damages. Roughly 4,000 suspected cases of microcephaly have been reported in Brazil since October, compared with the 150 cases reported in all of 2014. In Brazil’s northeastern state of Pernambuco alone, 1,000 babies were born with smaller-than-usual brains according to health officials. One of them was Gleyse Kelly’s 3-month-old […]
Mahigit labing tatlong libo-katao na sa Colombia ang apektado ng Mosquito-Borne Zika Virus at maaari pang tumama sa mahigit pitong daang libo-katao. Ayon sa PAN-American Health Organization Figures, pumapangalawa ang Colombia sa Brazil sa infection rates. Limang daan at animnapung nagdadalang tao naman ang kabilang na sa naimpeksyon ng zika virus. Sa kasalukuyan ay wala pa namang naitatalang kaso ng bagong panganak na sanggol na nakararanas ng microcephaly, isang congenital defect sanhi ng zika virus. […]
US authorities said that pregnant women or those trying to become pregnant should consider postponing travel to Latin America and Caribbean countries and territories that reported an outbreak of the mosquito-borne Zika virus. The virus was found in fetal and newborn tissues of babies with microcephaly in Brazil. Microcephaly is a neurological disorder that can cause babies to be born with abnormally small heads, which leads to severe developmental issues and sometimes death. There is […]
