Brazil officials can access all buildings to fight mosquito

The Yellow Fever mosquito can be found along the Gulf Coast of the United States while the Asian Tiger mosquito can be found as far north as New York City.

The emergency meeting – a global telephone conference grouping senior World Health Organization officials, representatives of affected countries, and worldwide experts – began shortly after 1200 GMT.

The Pan American Health Organization says that Zika has now spread in 24 nations and territories in the Americas. Second, the feds should expeditiously work with private industries to develop a vaccine, a treatment, and a test for the Zika virus.

Here in Texas six, travel-related cases have been confirmed.

Experts have also said a vaccination for the virus will not be available for a number of years.

If the meeting did result in the declarion of the virus as a “public health emergency of worldwide concern”, it would lead to an influx of money and resources going into research and scientific expertise to seek cures for and vaccinations against it.

“All it takes is a little amount of water in a child’s toy in our backyard for hundreds for mosquitoes to breed”, said Rodriguez.

In Brazil, over one million individuals have already been infected by the mosquito-borne virus, which has been connected to cases of microcephaly, a disease in which babies born to infected mothers have underdeveloped brains.

Dr Hussein Abdul Rahman Al Rand, Assistant Undersecretary for Health Centres and Clinics at the health ministry, said the virus, that is transmitted to people through the bite of an infected mosquito, is not known to the UAE and can not thrive here.

“If they need to travel, they can get advice from their physician and take personal protective measures, like wearing long sleeves and shirts and trousers and use mosquito repellent”. Health officials in several Asian countries have advised travellers, pregnant women especially, to avoid trips to Central and South America.

“We just want to inform them so they would be aware of it and to prepare them just in case it makes its presence here”, she said.

WHO has recommended the member states, including Bhutan, to increase awareness among health professionals, especially those who provide prenatal and newborn care and to strengthen laboratory capacity to confirm suspected Zika virus infections.