- Jan 2023
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pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Zika virus as a cause of birth defects: Were the teratogenic effects of Zika virus missed for decades?
Although it is not possible to prove definitively that ZIKV had teratogenic properties before 2013, several pieces of evidence support the hypothesis that its teratogenicity had been missed in the past. These findings emphasize the need for further investments in global surveillance for emerging infections and for birth defects so that infectious teratogens can be identified more expeditiously in the future.
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- Aug 2020
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www.nber.org www.nber.org
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Vu, Jonathan T, Benjamin K Kaplan, Shomesh Chaudhuri, Monique K Mansoura, and Andrew W Lo. ‘Financing Vaccines for Global Health Security’. Working Paper. Working Paper Series. National Bureau of Economic Research, May 2020. https://doi.org/10.3386/w27212.
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- May 2020
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f1000research.com f1000research.com
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Counotte, M. J., Egli-Gany, D., Riesen, M., Abraha, M., Porgo, T. V., Wang, J., & Low, N. (2018). Zika virus infection as a cause of congenital brain abnormalities and Guillain-Barré syndrome: From systematic review to living systematic review. F1000Research, 7, 196. https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.13704.1
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- May 2016
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harvardpublichealthreview.org harvardpublichealthreview.org
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Third, while Brazil’s Zika inevitably will spread globally — given enough time, viruses always do — it helps nobody to speed that up.[14] In particular, it cannot possibly help when an estimated 500,000 foreign tourists flock into Rio for the Games, potentially becoming infected, and returning to their homes where both local Aedes mosquitoes and sexual transmission can establish new outbreaks.
This is the most alarming part
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Zika infection is more dangerous, and Brazil’s outbreak more extensive, than scientists reckoned a short time ago. Which leads to a bitter truth: the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games must be postponed, moved, or both, as a precautionary concession.
bitter truth
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