Zika’s shock wave continues to cause tremors all over the planet. Latin America, the United States, Europe and Asia draw up, from week to week, an increasingly heavy assessment of this disaster. With increasingly serious consequences.
The link between the virus and microcephaly or other brain abnormalities in the fetus is scientifically established. But today, researchers raised the alert level over the repercussions of Zika, citing a coming “global epidemic” of microcephaly. “We must prepare for an epidemic of microcephaly that will spread to all countries that experience indigenous transmissions of the Zika virus as well as to countries where this transmission could spread”, warn Brazilian and British researchers in a published study. in The Lancet Infectious Diseases and relayed by Agence France-Presse.
It was an observational study that led to these results. Specialists compared 32 newborns with microcephaly to 62 unaffected newborns. As a result, half of the first had a positive test for Zika virus infection either in the blood or in the cerebrospinal fluid. However, no positive test was detected in the latter.
Consequently, the authors of this work recommend including the Zika virus in “the list of congenital infections, along with toxoplasmosis, syphilis, chicken pox, parvovirus B19, rubella, cytomegalovirus and herpes”. .
In Brazil, 1.5 million people have been infected and 1,600 babies have been born with microcephaly.
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