Zika Confirmed In Cape Verde Microcephaly Newborn

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First case of microcephaly due to Zika virus

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The Aedes aegypti mosquito is the zika virus transmitter.Marvin Recinos / AFP

A link between the first case of microcephaly in newly born in Cape Verde and the Zika virus was confirmed after testing.

 

The tests have confirmed a link between the first case of the child who was born with microcephaly in Cape Verde and the Zika virus.

The results of these tests, which continue in a virology laboratory in Praia, will only be announced after the completion of the analysis, but the Health Minister Cristina Fontes Lima, advanced to press the samples analyzed mother and child show presence virus.

On 15 March, the Minister of Health reported that Cape Verde had registered the first case of microcephaly and is since ongoing investigations to determine whether the case had links to the Zika virus.

To this end, the archipelago is a technical mission, which includes technicians from the World Health Organization (WHO) for Africa and the Pasteur Institute in Dakar (Senegal), which will support the health authorities in Cape Verde to fight the virus.

 

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Zika Virus: First Microcephaly case recorded in Cape Verde

ByAriori Babajide

Posted on March 17, 2016

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Africa may record its first case of Zika-linked microcephaly after an instance of the neurological condition was identified on Cape Verde.

A baby born in the capital Praia on March 14 was found to have microcephaly, which results in children being born with underdeveloped brains and abnormally small heads according to Cape Verde’s Ministry of Health. The child’s mother was not among some 100 women being monitored for Zika and samples from both mother and child will be sent to a health institute in Senegal on Thursday for analysis, Cape Verde’s Health Minister Cristina Fontes said, according to Reuters.

More than 7,000 cases of Zika have been recorded since October 2015 on Cape Verde, a volcanic archipelago that lies some 570 kilometers (350 miles) west of Senegal in the Atlantic Ocean but which has historic ties to Brazil, which has been at the center of the current epidemic.

The World Health Organization declared the possible link between Zika and microcephaly to be a public health emergency in February. The Zika epidemic has also been linked to an increase in cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS), a neurological condition that can result in paralysis and severe breathing problems. At least nine countries have reported an increase in GBS cases following a Zika outbreak.

The mosquito-borne virus was first discovered in rhesus monkeys Uganda’s Zika forest in 1947, before being found in humans in Uganda and Tanzania in 1952. Zika is closely associated to other viruses—such as dengue fever, yellow fever and chikungunya—which are endemic in parts of Africa. Some medical experts have suggested that people living in East Africa may already be immune to Zika after being exposed to its antibodies over several decades.

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