Brazilian Brain Damaged Babies due to Virus
With major events coming up like Carnaval there are fears that the virus will spread across the entire country. The virus is confirmed to cross the placental barrier and can often cause microcephaly.
It is transmitted directly between mosquitoes and humans with only a 10 day incubation in mosquitoes.
The virus can be sexually transmitted. Remaining in the body for life.
A major problem with the virus is that it has no cures, no vaccines, no treatments. It causes only mild flu symptoms but due to a rapid spread from primarily africa and southern Asia to the Polynesian region as well as Carribeans and South America it has become a pandemic.
The virus is not restricted to one or a few species of arthropod and has been isolated from a dozen mosquito species, though as of yet spreading primarily by daytime active mosquitoes.
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