Zika: How safe is India?
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- 作者：C. George Priya Doss ; R. Siva ; B. Prabhu Christopher…
- 关键词：Zika virus ; Preventive measures ; India
- 刊名：Infectious Diseases of Poverty
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：6
- 期：1
- 全文大小：353KB
- 刊物主题：Infectious Diseases; Tropical Medicine; Public Health;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：2049-9957
- 卷排序：6
文摘
Zika virus, which originated from a forest in Uganda, has affected countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Most people infected with Zika are asymptomatic and present with clinical manifestations ranging from mild fever to severe neurological disorders. Recent outbreaks in Southeast Asian countries, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has warned pregnant woman to avoid nonessential traveling to 11 Asian countries. Reports about the sexual transmission route of Zika have pushed the World Health Organization to declare it a ‘public health emergency’. Having this current warning status, it has become mandatory to consider where second highly populated country India stands in terms of spreading awareness and taking precautionary measures against the Zika virus infection. Therefore, this paper aims to highlight the importance of Zika in Indian population by considering several indicators such as the population size and ratio, rates of mortality, closely related diseases, government initiatives, and other micro-level factors which are prone to Zika effects.