At the fourth dimension of writing the World Health Organization are coming together to determine whether to declare the Zika virus a "public wellness emergency of international concern". You tin forcefulness out acquire to a greater extent than most the Zika virus on Frontline's novel floor map, The Spread of Zika.
The map documents the spread of the Zika virus across many parts of the the world since it was commencement detected inward a rhesus monkey inward the Zika Forest on the shores of Lake Victoria, Republic of Uganda inward 1947. The map is non exclusively informative most the spread of the affliction merely besides most how medicine's agreement of the affliction has grown over the decades.
As Frontline's floor map is clear to betoken out, exclusively 1 inward 5 people who contract the Zika virus always hold upwards symptoms. Most of the 1 inward 5 cases that create sense symptoms hold upwards symptoms which are like to a mild instance of flu. What is most worrying wellness regime is the link betwixt Zika fever together with microcephaly inward newborn babies of infected mothers. This link has non nonetheless been established - merely is strongly believed to exist.
HealthMap, which provides interactive maps of infectious diseases, has besides released a map of the Zika virus. The Zika Virus HealthMap is non a map of confirmed cases of the Zika virus merely plots Zika virus word from disparate information sources, including "online word aggregators, eyewitness reports, expert-curated discussions together with validated official reports".
