Zika virus Evil of 2016

The Zika virus , unlike other mosquito borne viruse such as dengue, is relatively unknown and unstudied.

That is set to change since Zika, now spreading through Latin America and the Caribbean, has been associated with an alarming rise in babies born in Brazil with abnormally small heads and brain defects a condition called microcephaly. Since the Zika outbreak began in north-eastern  Brazil last spring, an estimated 5,00,000 to 1.5 million people have been infected. the resulting illness only lasts a few days. The symptoms. include a rash , joint pains, inflammation of the eyes and fever, tend to be less debilitating than those of dengue . as many as 80 per cent of infected people may be asymptomatic. It was not until months after Zika cases showed up in Brazil that a spike in microcephaly birth was tied to woman infected during pregnancy. More than 3,500 microcephaly cases have been reported since October in Brazil, compared to around 150 cases in 2014 . While Zika’s connection to microcephaly has yet to be definitively proven, the presence of the virus has been founded in the bodies of five of the new-bourns that died with the condition .

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