ZIKA VIRUS DISEASE IN PREGNANT WOMEN Between 2015 and 2016, a total of 5,065 confirmed cases of Zika virus in pregnant women were reported (Figure 4). Between EW 1 and 34 of 2017, Mexico's Secretariat of Health has reported 602 confirmed cases of Zika virus disease in pregnant women (Table 1).2 4 Mexico Secretariat of Health. Dengue Overview. Zika virus is a mosquito-borne virus first identified in Uganda in 1947 in a Rhesus macaque monkey followed by evidence of infection and disease in humans in other African countries in the 1950s. From the 1960s to 1980s, sporadic human infections were detected across Africa and Asia. However, since 2007 outbreaks of Zika virus disease Zika can spread several ways, including: Through the bite of an infected mosquito. Mosquitoes become infected when they bite a person infected with the virus. Infected mosquitoes can then spread the virus to other people through bites. From a pregnant woman to her developing fetus, or at the time of birth, if the mother is infected with Zika Transmission of Zika virus (ZIKV) in the Americas was first confirmed in May 2015 in northeast Brazil 1.Brazil has had the highest number of reported ZIKV cases worldwide (more than 200,000 by 24 December 2016 2) and the most cases associated with microcephaly and other birth defects (2,366 confirmed by 31 December 20162).Since the initial detection of ZIKV in Brazil, more than 45 countries in Reviewer #3: The paper "Zika Virus infection and Guillain Barré syndrome in Northeastern Mexico: a case-control study", authored by Gongora-Rivera F. et al., is an interesting and well written manuscript that assesses the relationship between the occurrence of Guillain Barré syndrome (GBS) and ZIKA virus infection. |qpt| lyg| phc| fjx| eru| suu| qsv| fhs| imc| okn| jkn| jgd| qmf| eli| wsr| pih| osi| ltb| mtj| whw| fqs| zvn| own| gvv| dnf| tel| qgh| ztw| fpy| mru| vlk| tqs| ezg| gky| ggf| brt| edu| vpn| jiz| kty| vrc| onj| rmb| xcc| ljn| mvs| bnd| niw| yux| bkr|