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Specter is haunting Europe on behalf of Zika virus

Publication at Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové |
2016

Abstract

In February 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) global state of emergency due to a virus Zika, that associated with developmental brain disorders fetuses. Similarly, responded to the operational center of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, which has declared the highest alert level, and from that moment on coordinating efforts to quickly confirm suspicions concerning the relationship between infection with this virus, neonatal defects and other suspicions in terms of risk to human health on your side of the ocean.

Relevant institutions and laboratories are trying at the moment to develop a quick and reliable diagnostic test to detect the virus Zika, as expeditiously implement the study that tells us most about the relationship between the virus and microcephaly or Guillainovým-Barre syndrome. WHO and CDC are trying to collect available data, evaluate them as soon as possible to deepen knowledge about trans mission of the virus, as well as to process maximum information about how to behave and protect themselves from the virus Zika, and spread them all available information channels.

Urgent progress on retrofitting the most affected countries (Puerto Rico, Brazil, Columbia, American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, Panama) medical supplies, test kits. In areas already operate international teams of epidemiologists and laboratory workers who work on preliminary data for surveillance and implement preventive measures.