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Travelers bring Zika Virus to Europe
In Brazil is spreading from the mysterious Zika Virus rapidly. 500,000 people should there be already infected. Meanwhile, also in Europe, the first known cases.
The mosquito “Aedes Aegypti”, the Zika Virus is transmitted
In the famous Sambódromo, where at the beginning of February, hundreds of thousands of carnival celebrations, try to be specialists in protective suits with Insektenbekämpfungsmitteln and vacuum cleaners the Aedes mosquito to fight. You not only transmits the dangerous Dengue fever but also the Zika Virus, which is suspected with an infection of Pregnant women, the so-called Mikrozephalie in the child trigger. The babies come with a too-small head on the world, what with abnormalities in the brain associated.
So far was the Virus as harmless. Symptoms are mild fever, head and joint pain as well as redness. But now from the hospitals of the country a total of more than 4000 Schädelfehlbildungen in the newborn have been reported, can be of a harmless Virus be no more talk. The newspaper “O Globo” reported that around 200 new suspected cases of Pregnant women per week. Around 500,000 people are now in Brazil have been infected.
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Brazil: special forces against the Zika Virus
Brazil is not the only country from the spread of the Virus affected. From Colombia are now just under 14,000 cases, known also from other Central and South American countries, many cases. Due to the geographical proximity and the first reported cases in the United States called on President Barack Obama on Tuesday, a better education of his countrymen. All Americans would have about the Zika Virus. The US President appealed also to the science, amplified on a vaccine to work and the diagnostics improve.
In Europe, however, is the number of infections is still in the single digit range. The first cases were in Italy, UK and Spain. On Wednesday came news from Denmark and Switzerland. The treating hospital in Aarhus was a Zika virus infection in a Danish firm, previously as a Tourist in South America should have been. It was a young man who is expected to fully recover. In Switzerland, declared the health authorities, the patients were previously in Haiti and Colombia.
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Unreported possible
According to the Hamburg virologist Jonas Schmidt-Chanasit are in Germany since 2013 ten infections have been found. All Concerned would have on long-distance travel have also been infected. The employees of the Hamburg-based Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for tropical medicine, however, goes from a high number of unreported cases. His facility is next to the Pasteur Institute in Paris and two institutes in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom one of the four reference Centres in Europe, the the infection can. Schmidt-Chanasit reported, the number of cases climb now, because more patients examine could be the medical professionals more accurately hinschauten.
djo/qu (afp, dpa)