First case of microcephaly due to Zika virus

by RFIPublished on 03.04.2016 Changed 04/03/2016 at 18:37

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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