Zika Microcephaly Catalonia Spain ex-South America

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A Spanish woman who caught Zika while travelling in South America has discovered her unborn baby has microcephaly.

The unnamed woman, from Catalonia, was told her baby has several abnormalities at her 20-week scan.

Today, the country's Health Ministry confirmed it was Spain's first case.  

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3576711/Spain-gets-case-Zika-related-brain-defect-foetus.html#ixzz47sdhGxVB 

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Detected the first case of microcephaly by Zika virus in Spain
Hospital Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona treats the patient, who also contracted dengue and has decided to go ahead with the pregnancy

A. HEAD / A. GUBERNBarcelona - 05.05.2016 at 21: 19: 53h. - Act at 11: 18: 41h..
Filed in: Catalonia - Topics: Rio de Janeiro, Europe, zika Virus, Virus, Tuberculosis, Dengue
First case of microcephaly because of Zika virus in Spain. Hospital Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona has detected the first case of microcephaly in our country, the second in Europe in a patient who contracted the disease. Once the protocol enabled, ultrasounds found that the fetus had malformations. A woman they detected it when I was in the 20th week of gestation.

Despite this, and as has moved tonight 8TV, the mother has DECIC go ahead with the pregnancy. According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health, where this virus and Spain amounted to 105.

As confirmed by the Secretary of Public Health of the Generalitat, Joan Guix, she had visited in recent months various parts of Latin America, where he allegedly was infected. Reportedly, on the same trip the woman was infected with dengue.

According to the same responsible for the Generalitat, the fetus has "various malformations," although the mother, noted, "we believe that no risk." In case detected in Spain, are now nine countries where there have been cases of microcephaly associated with zika viruz.

Long zika hundred cases detected in Spain, about 40 are located in Catalonia, and among these, four belong to pregnant women. According Guix, apart from the case cited, those of the other three pregnant evolve favorably. In parallel, another infected woman recently gave birth zika: both mother and baby are in perfect condition and "do not present any complications." In all five cases, the women had traveled to countries where the outbreak is active.

In this regard, the Generalitat of Catalonia wanted to reassure the public mind that all cases detected in our country have been imported. The probability that a fetus is spreading his mother is one in 30,000.

http://www.abc.es/espana/catalunya/abci-detectado-primer-caso-microcefalia-virus-zika-espana-201605052119_noticia.html

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WHO report indicates microcpehaly case was infected in Colombia:

Spain 1 Colombia 

http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/208816/1/zikasitrep_2Jun2016_eng.pdf?ua=1

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