New Zika virus cases have been reported in Kanpur, India
A national vector survey published by ICMR in 2021 found that mosquitoes in 3 of the 6,492 ponds tested positive for the Zika virus.
The world may have forgotten the Zika virus, but it has not failed us. The number of Zika virus cases in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, has surpassed 100 since the infection was first discovered on October 23, starting November 11, 2021.
- What is Zika?
- Where was it first discovered?
- How worried is India?
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Zika was first isolated of Rhesus Macaque monkeys in the Zika forest in Uganda in 1947 and humans in 1952. Only 15 cases were reported from Africa also Southeast Asia over the next five decades.
In 2007, this zoonosis (an infection that occurs in animals and is transmit to humans) became widespread in Yap, a group of islands in the western Pacific. The virus then spread to other Civilized islands before reaching Brazil. Then it quickly spread to other parts of South America, Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean.
On February 1, 2016, the sheer number of cases forced the World Health Organization to declare a health emergency of international concern.
This virus usually causes low-grade fever, pain, rash, and conjunctivitis. However, in 2016, it was associate with microcephaly (a condition of an under develop head and brain defect) in the children of women who had the infection during pregnancy. The virus also appears to be associate with Guillain-Barré syndrome, a progressive neurological disease that causes paralysis.
During the 2015-2017 epidemic, 2,639 cases of microcephaly were report in Brazil; other strains circulate in Brazil and are the reason why microcephaly has only been written from that country.
Studies on the spread of the Zika virus, conducted in early 1952-53 by the National Institute of Virology. Pune, showed the presence of antibodies in humans in parts of central and western India. Aedes aegypti also Aedes albopictus mosquitoes transmit Zika virus. It can also be transmit complete blood transfusions, sexual contact, and exposure to urine.
A national vector survey published by the Indian Council of Medical Research in 2021 found mosquitoes in 3 of the 6,492 ponds studied tested positive for the Zika virus. In addition, Aedes aegypti, taken during the 2018 Zika epidemic in Jaipur, Rajasthan. Shows an Asian virus line rather than an American line associated with the pandemic.
