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Vaccines would have to, and improved diagnostics: The U.S. President appeals to the scientist. The need to take time to think about the health experts.

The American President had his top-level advisors in matters of health into the White house requested. Barack Obama urging them on, diagnostic Tests, research into vaccines and possible Heilungsansätzen advance: It’s going to be the tropical Zika Virus, which is suspected of unborn children, malformations cause. All Americans should have about the Virus and about ways to inform and to know, as they protect against infection could, warned Obama.

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Its experts warned, however, against exaggerated hopes of a speedy solution. So said the renowned immunologist Anthony fancy, effective funds will certainly “not overnight”. There are various drugs for similar disorders in the development, such as anti-Dengue and Chikungunya-fever or the West Nile Virus, said the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) in Bethesda, in the fight against AIDS already has made a name.

You will work closely with scientists from Brazil cooperate, announced fancy. There the government has given the emergency situation, decided to also soldiers in the fight against the mosquitoes, the epidemic spread. Brazil is the strongest of Zika affected and is due to the carnival in Rio de Janeiro and the Olympic games especially under pressure.

The world health organization (WHO) has this week against a spread of just for Pregnant women dangerous Virus on the American continent as a whole warned. The of mosquitoes of the Aedes genus-borne pathogens was already in 21 countries, have been found.

Even after Germany the Virus has been repeatedly introduced by travelers, such as the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for tropical medicine in Hamburg reported. Since 2013, we have ten infections it found, said of the virologist Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit of the German press Agency. An accurate picture of harmful Virus cases in Europe, there is not, because the infection is not reportable.

SC/boron (APE, rtr, dpa)