Senegalese Experts Help Brazil Fight Zika Virus
Researchers who helped contain the Ebola epidemic in West Africa are training Brazilians on how to tackle the Zika virus.
Aedes aegypti, one of the transmitters of the Zika virus.
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East Africa:
What Tanzanians Need to Know About Zika Fever
Citizen, 2 February 2016
The government's directive to all doctors in Tanzania to keep a sharp eye on the threat of the Zika virus has come at a time when the public is less informed of many issues about… Read more »
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Nigeria:
What We Should Know About Zika Virus
Daily Trust, 1 February 2016
The International Health Regulations Emergency Committee on Zika virus held a meeting yesterday. It was organised by WHO Director-General, Dr Margaret Chan to ascertain whether the… Read more »
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Africa:
Zika Virus - the New Rampaging Mosquito-Borne Disease
The Point, 26 January 2016
It has been reported that the mosquito-borne Zika virus is presently spreading widely in the Americas through mosquitos. The viral disease is linked to brain deformities in babies… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Killer Viruses On the Prowl, Threaten Human Life
Guardian, 25 January 2016
VIRUSES, hitherto almost unknown to scientists, are in town - from China to Saudi Arabia, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Canada to Nigeria - unleashing ill health and death. Read more »
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Africa:
MSF Alert - Five Epidemics to Watch
MSF, 25 January 2016
Five diseases with the potential to become epidemics in 2016 are being highlighted by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), as the World Health Organization's executive… Read more »
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Africa:
Twenty Countries in the Americas Reporting Cases of Zika Virus - UN Health Agency
UN News, 22 January 2016
Twenty countries in the Americas and about 10 in Africa, Asia and the Pacific have reported cases of the mosquito-borne Zika virus infection according to information delivered… Read more »
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Africa:
Focus On Disability - Monitor Birth Defects to Save Lives
SciDev.Net, 7 December 2015
News broke last week of a viral link to an alarming rise in the number of babies born with microcephaly in Brazil. Scientists confirmed the cause to be maternal infection with Zika… Read more »