Travel warnings grow over Zika virus
The Zika virus, which may be linked to brain damage in thousands of babies, is prompting governments to issue travel warnings to pregnant women for countries where the tropical fever has been detected
Locally transmitted cases of Zika virus reported in last two months
Cape
Verde
Thailand
Mexico
Brazil
Ecuador
Bolivia
Limit of range of
Aedes aegypti mosquito
Paraguay
Samoa
Guatemala
Dominican Republic
500km
300 miles
Puerto Rico
Saint Martin (FR)
Guadeloupe (FR)
Honduras
Martinique (FR)
U.S. Virgin
Islands
Haiti
Barbados
Guyana
Panama
Suriname
El Salvador
French
Guiana
Venezuela
Colombia
Primarily through bite of infected Aedes
Zika spread:
aegypti mosquito. Virus may also pass from mother to
foetus during pregnancy. Link between Zika and babies
born with underdeveloped brains, or microcephaly,
is still being investigated
Sources: CDC, ECDC, WHO
Picture: Associated Press
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Travel warnings grow over Zika virus
The Zika virus, which may be linked to brain damage in thousands of babies, is prompting governments to issue travel warnings to pregnant women for countries where the tropical fever has been detected
Locally transmitted cases of Zika virus in last two months
Cape
Verde
Thailand
Mexico
Brazil
Ecuador
Bolivia
Range of Aedes
aegypti mosquito
Paraguay
Samoa
Guatemala
Dominican Republic
Puerto Rico
Saint Martin
Guadeloupe
Honduras
Martinique
U.S. Virgin Is.
Haiti
Barbados
Panama
French
Guiana
Venezuela
El Salvador
Colombia
Guyana
Suriname
Primarily through bite
Zika spread:
of infected Aedes aegypti mosquito.
Virus may also pass from mother to
foetus during pregnancy. Link
between Zika and babies born
with underdeveloped brains,
or microcephaly, being investigated
Sources: CDC, ECDC, WHO
Picture: AP
© GRAPHIC NEWS
Travel warnings grow over Zika virus
The Zika virus, which may be linked to brain damage in thousands of babies, is prompting governments to issue travel warnings to pregnant women for countries where the tropical fever has been detected
Locally transmitted cases of
Zika virus in last two months
Range of Aedes aegypti mosquito
Thailand
Mexico
Cape Verde
Detail
map
Bolivia
Paraguay
Samoa
Guatemala
Haiti
Dominican Rep.
Honduras
Puerto Rico
Panama
French
Guiana
Venezuela
El Salvador
Colombia
Suriname
Ecuador
Brazil
Guyana
U.S. Virgin
Islands
Saint Martin
Guadeloupe
Martinique
Barbados
Primarily through bite of
Zika spread:
infected Aedes aegypti mosquito. Virus
may also pass from mother to foetus
during pregnancy. Link between Zika
and babies born with underdeveloped
brains, or microcephaly, is still being
investigated
Picture: AP
Sources:
CDC, ECDC, WHO
© GRAPHIC NEWS
HEALTH
Zika virus cases
January 27, 2016 - The Zika virus, which may be linked to brain damage in thousands of babies in Latin America, is prompting governments to issue travel warnings to pregnant women for countries where the mosquito-borne infection has been detected.