Brazil says thousands of babies have been born with abnormally small heads since October. The health system is struggling to cope with the outbreak linked to the Zika virus which is spread by mosquitoes. The rare brain defect affects the babies’ physical and mental development. The disease has spread across Brazil with close to four-thousand suspected cases since October. It is now showing up in other South American countries.. Subscribe to BBC News HERE http://bit.ly/1rbfUog. Check out our website: http://www.bbc.com/news. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bbcworldnews. Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bbcworld. Instagram: http://instagram.com/bbcnews
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It’s a long ride to the treatment center where Angelica Pereira takes her daughter Luiza..
Thousands of children in Brazil have congenital Zika syndrome..
Luiza requires frequent physical therapy to improve muscle movement and control..
Pereira also struggles to pay for her daughter’s seizure medication, which the government doesn’t provide..
A year into the Zika epidemic in Brazil, many mothers struggle to get the government to help with their children’s medical needs..
Susana Lima depends on church donations to buy seizure medication for her son..
This little girl’s parents are both out of work, yet they are not eligible for financial aid..
SOUNDBITE Ana Carla Bernardo, mother of Carla Elisabethe who has congenital Zika syndrome and suffers from seizures:
“We want the government to help us because there is no money for health care. They should put themselves in our shoes for at least one minute. We struggle a lot with these children.”. . . .
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Microcephaly is a rare neurological disorder with long-term physical and mental repercussions that has been linked to the Zika virus. CNN’s Shasta Darlington reports.
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Just over three years ago, an outbreak of the Zika virus caused a crisis in Brazil: a dramatic increase in babies born with microcephaly. These babies are now young children facing a variety of medical problems and an uncertain future. Their impairments require multiple doctor’s visits a week but for these mostly poor families, just getting to and affording treatment is a feat.
TUESDAY, Aug. 9, 2016 (HealthDay News) The Zika virus has already been linked to serious birth defects in the brain, and now it looks as if the virus may also cause deformities of. The Zika virus has already been linked to serious birth defects in the brain, and now it looks as if the virus may also cause deformities of joints in the arms and legs of newborns. TUESDAY, Aug. 9, 2016 (HealthDay News) The Zika virus has already been linked to serious birth defects in the brain, and now it looks as if the virus may also cause deformities of joints in the arms and legs of newborns, a new Brazilian study suggests.
The condition called arthrogryposis causes multiple joints to be contracted or curved. This condition hadn’t previously been linked to Zik. Zika Linked to Deformed Limbs in Newborns The Zika virus has already been linked to serious birth defects in the brain, and now it looks as if the virus may cause deformities of joints in the arms and legs of newborns, a new Brazilian study suggests. TUESDAY, Aug.
9, 2016 (HealthDay News) The Zika virus has already been linked to serious birth defects in the brain, and now it looks as if the virus may also cause deformities of joints in the arms and legs of newborns, a new Brazilian study suggests. The condition called arthrogryposis causes multiple joints to be contracted or curved. Zika infection during pregnancy may cause limb joint deformities in the baby, experts now fear.
Brazilian researchers from Recife, the city at the centre of the Zika epidemic, describe seven. Gaby was the first baby born with Zika-related disabilities in her small town in Paraíba state. Carol held Gaby in her arms as she recounted the story of her pregnancy.
Zika is the first mosquito-borne virus to cause birth defects but other infections are known to cause similar damage –including rubella and cytomegalovirus. But Zika’s damage appears to be worse. Zika and Microcephaly.
Microcephaly is a birth defect in which a baby’s head is smaller than expected when compared to babies of the same sex and age. Babies with microcephaly often have smaller brains that might not have developed properly. Zika virus infection during pregnancy is a cause of microcephaly.
During pregnancy, a baby’s head grows because the baby’s brain grows. Experts fear that Zika infection experienced during gestation could cause deformed limbs in the baby. In the journal BMJ, seven questionable circumstances are described by Brazilian scientists from Recife, which is the city at the heart of the Zika epidemic.
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Zika virus can be spread from a pregnant woman to her fetus and has been linked to a serious birth defect of the brain called microcephaly (Fig. 18.13) in babies of mothers who had Zika virus while pregnant.
Zika infection during pregnancy may cause severe birth defects including microcephaly and fetal death, and patients have developed Guillain–Barré syndrome.
The altered Zika virus that is now spreading in many countries via a mosquito vector has been found to affect fetuses in pregnant women, causing babies to be born with reduced brain and skull size.
Studies in mice with immune defects suggest that Zika virus replicates initially in the placenta followed by infection of the fetus, and that viral replication occurs in neural precursor cells, leading to reduced brain size and thinning of the cortex.
During April 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concluded “… that Zika virus is a cause of microcephaly and other severe brain defects”15 Infection with the Zika virus increases the risk of adverse health outcomes; not all infected pregnant females will give birth to infants who have
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It is so sad to see all of those children with microcephaly, and the burden the present to their parents. It is also so encouraging to see all of those mothers giving their babies everything they have to provide them the best lives possible. And the private doctor who cries because she is not able to treat all of the afflicted children in her area is just so heartbreaking. I hope going forward everyone gets all of the help they need.
There is no proven correlation between Zika and Microcephaly. Brazil has a tremendously messed up water supply due to decades of bad pesticide use which are linked to Microcephaly.
I have lived with mosquito for almost 13 years never heard of zika. I heard this virus in 2016.? that is shoking! I think that is man made virus then blamed the mosquito. for that virus.?
Oh, the irony. Texas loves to threaten to secede from the Union if things don’t go their way. Government is too big and too bad! Yet the governor had no problems calling and asking for federal funds when the Zika virus comes knocking on the back door. Where do they think the money comes from, leprechauns?
Remember: 80 percent of those infected have no symptoms.
Prof. Amir Attaran reminded us: Nuno Faria of Oxford University suggested Zika was carried to Brazil by a single individual in 2013. And by early 2016, about 1.5 million people were infected.
One person with Zika + three years time = about 1.5 million people infected
Out of 500,000 visitors to the Rio Games expected in August (if they go ahead), let’s say 1/2 are men. Those men (1/4 million of them) will need to abstain from oral, vaginal, and anal sex for 6 months (or use condoms and hope they don’t break, etc). Pre-ejaculate also carries the virus.
Plus: men, women and children returning from Rio will need to use mosquito repellents to guard against local mosquitoes (which will peak in numbers in northern hemispheres) from acquiring and spreading it. A dozen species in Canada can carry and transmit it. The most effect products contain DEET and the latest recommendation is to use a 50 percent concentration of it (5 times more than children under 12 can tolerate).
Babies and pregnant women should not use DEET-containing products. In fact, Duke University’s Mohamed Abou-Donia found that frequent and prolonged DEET exposure led to diffuse brain cell death and behavioral changes, and concluded that humans should stay away from products containing it.
A developing fetus is vulnerable to Zika for the entire 9 months of pregnancy (not just the first trimester). Are women and children going to be able to quarantine themselves for 6 9 months? Are a 1/4 of a million men going to abstain from all forms of sex?
Exactly.
Each baby born with microcephaly costs 1 to 2 million to treat. People with microcephaly may have problems including seizures, intellectual disability, trouble walking or standing, or difficulty speaking or swallowing. Some also have hearing or vision problems. Children and adults can suffer paralysis and even death.
I started a petition to help: https://www.change.org/p/everyone-in-the-world-including-but-not-limited-to-change-org-users-participating-countries-athletes-and-citizens-boycott-the-2016-rio-summer-olympics
Remember thalidomide, humans pissing around with nature, we will never learn, everything we live with concerning nature has took billions of years to make, man comes along genetically alters something and hey presto.
Prophet Muhammad, mentioned this long time ago. He said it will come a diseases that no one heard it before., that means this is a sign of the day of judgement. coming closer,. long time ago people didn’t know Aids/Hiv/ Ebola/ Zika..
This is some scary shit. Everyone hold off on getting pregnant for 3 years, or until we’ve got vaccine. Kick this piece of shit virus’s microscopic ass docs. You can do it.
It is so sad to see all of those children with microcephaly, and the burden the present to their parents. It is also so encouraging to see all of those mothers giving their babies everything they have to provide them the best lives possible. And the private doctor who cries because she is not able to treat all of the afflicted children in her area is just so heartbreaking. I hope going forward everyone gets all of the help they need.
There is no proven correlation between Zika and Microcephaly. Brazil has a tremendously messed up water supply due to decades of bad pesticide use which are linked to Microcephaly.
I have lived with mosquito for almost 13 years never heard of zika. I heard this virus in 2016.? that is shoking! I think that is man made virus then blamed the mosquito. for that virus.?
Oh, the irony. Texas loves to threaten to secede from the Union if things don’t go their way. Government is too big and too bad! Yet the governor had no problems calling and asking for federal funds when the Zika virus comes knocking on the back door. Where do they think the money comes from, leprechauns?
Remember: 80 percent of those infected have no symptoms.
Prof. Amir Attaran reminded us: Nuno Faria of Oxford University suggested Zika was carried to Brazil by a single individual in 2013. And by early 2016, about 1.5 million people were infected.
One person with Zika + three years time = about 1.5 million people infected
Out of 500,000 visitors to the Rio Games expected in August (if they go ahead), let’s say 1/2 are men. Those men (1/4 million of them) will need to abstain from oral, vaginal, and anal sex for 6 months (or use condoms and hope they don’t break, etc). Pre-ejaculate also carries the virus.
Plus: men, women and children returning from Rio will need to use mosquito repellents to guard against local mosquitoes (which will peak in numbers in northern hemispheres) from acquiring and spreading it. A dozen species in Canada can carry and transmit it. The most effect products contain DEET and the latest recommendation is to use a 50 percent concentration of it (5 times more than children under 12 can tolerate).
Babies and pregnant women should not use DEET-containing products. In fact, Duke University’s Mohamed Abou-Donia found that frequent and prolonged DEET exposure led to diffuse brain cell death and behavioral changes, and concluded that humans should stay away from products containing it.
A developing fetus is vulnerable to Zika for the entire 9 months of pregnancy (not just the first trimester). Are women and children going to be able to quarantine themselves for 6 9 months? Are a 1/4 of a million men going to abstain from all forms of sex?
Exactly.
Each baby born with microcephaly costs 1 to 2 million to treat. People with microcephaly may have problems including seizures, intellectual disability, trouble walking or standing, or difficulty speaking or swallowing. Some also have hearing or vision problems. Children and adults can suffer paralysis and even death.
I started a petition to help: https://www.change.org/p/everyone-in-the-world-including-but-not-limited-to-change-org-users-participating-countries-athletes-and-citizens-boycott-the-2016-rio-summer-olympics
Remember thalidomide, humans pissing around with nature, we will never learn, everything we live with concerning nature has took billions of years to make, man comes along genetically alters something and hey presto.
Prophet Muhammad, mentioned this long time ago. He said it will come a diseases that no one heard it before., that means this is a sign of the day of judgement. coming closer,. long time ago people didn’t know Aids/Hiv/ Ebola/ Zika..
This is some scary shit. Everyone hold off on getting pregnant for 3 years, or until we’ve got vaccine.
Kick this piece of shit virus’s microscopic ass docs. You can do it.