Zika virus strain 'imported from the Americas' to Africa

The virus ''Zika'' it is transmitted by mosquitoes with daytime activity and has been isolated from various species. The potential risk of infection Zika virus may be limited to the distribution of species of mosquitoes that transmit, the most common symptoms of virus infection include mild headaches, efflorescence or maculopapular rash, fever, malaise, conjunctivitis and joint pain.

Microcephaly is degeneration or malformation of the brain that determines the birth of children with a head smaller than the normal size and sometimes causes death.

This virus was discovered in 1950, and now they have returned to Africa to symptoms in cases of diseases zika.

So researchers from these symptomas say is that you need people of Africa have vaccines for fight against disease zika, because it will be another geographic disaster for Africa and other continents, as is provided by mosquitos and these are desenvolupan very quickly.

Researchers say some people of africa is already immune to this disease by vaccines from generation to generation, but children who are born and that has not been transmitted to them the vaccine zika these suffer from the disease, and they must avoid.

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