The World Health Organization has established an emergency commission inwards reply to the explosive spread of the Zika virus inwards the Americas. The virus has right away affected people inwards 23 countries inwards the Americas. You tin dismiss persuasion a static map of the countries alongside active Zika virus transmission on the Centers for Disease Control in addition to Prevention website.
The Zika virus causes an illness like to dengue fever in addition to it cannot live on prevented past times drugs or vaccines. The link betwixt Zika fever in addition to microcephaly inwards newborn babies of infected mothers has non all the same been established - exactly is strongly believed to exist.
HealthMap, which provides interactive maps of infectious diseases, has right away released a map of the Zika virus. The Zika Virus HealthMap is non a map of confirmed cases of the Zika virus exactly plots intelligence from disparate information sources, including "online intelligence aggregators, eyewitness reports, expert-curated discussions in addition to validated official reports".
As good every bit providing an overview of the electrical current Zika virus outbreak the map includes an overlay showing the predicted global distribution of Aedes aegypti, the musquito that spreads the virus.
Also run into Mapping the Zika Virus - Part Two.
