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The Zika virus, will it affect India?

WHO warned issued a warning to all countries, including India, who have vector of Aedes mosquito that also causes Dengue and Chikungunya.

By :  naren pulloor
Update: 2016-01-29 05:57 GMT
Many countries that have had the outbreak of a Zika virus, like Colombia, have not yet reported cases of microcephalis and Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Additionally, there are no vaccines, specific treatments, and rapid diagnostic tests, available to combat the virus.
The concern is also related to lack of immunity of the population that are unexposed to the Zika virus.
Complicating matters further, the Olympics in 2016 is to be held in Rio, the epicenter of the virus outbreak.
Such is the level of alarm that many American countries like El Salvador, Colombia and Ecuador have urged women to postpone pregnancy till 2018.
WHO chief Margaret Chan warned that the virus “is now spreading explosively,” and the global health body expected up to four million cases of the disease.
WHO chief Margaret Chan warned that the virus “is now spreading explosively,” and the global health body expected up to four million cases of the disease.
WHO chief Margaret Chan warned that the virus 'is now spreading explosively,' and the global health body expected up to four million cases of the disease.
Zika originated in Africa and also exists in Asia.
Dr Marcos Espinal, director of communicable diseases and health analysis at WHO, warned that Zika 'will go everywhere the mosquito is. We should assume that. We should not wait for it to spread.'
The outbreak began in Brazil last year and has now spread to 24 countries in the Americas, causing serious birth defects and other neurological problems like microcephaly, a condition that causes babies to be born with an abnormally small head.
The Zika virus is caused by the aggressive Aedes aegypti mosquito that also causes Dengue and Chikungunya both the viral diseases are of great public health concern to tropical countries like India.
The Zika virus is 'spreading explosively' in the Americas and can infect upto four million people, the WHO warned on Thursday as it issued a warning to all countries, including India, who have the vector of Aedes mosquito that also causes Dengue and Chikungunya.
WHO warned issued a warning to all countries, including India, who have vector of Aedes mosquito that also causes Dengue and Chikungunya.

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