Colombia receives more than 37,000 infected zika, 6,300 of them
pregnant, reported Saturday the National Institute of Health (NIH).
AFP
Zika cases are 37.011, 6.356 of them in pregnant women, according to the latest epidemiological bulletin with data up to 13 February.
Of all those infected, 30,148 are confirmed by clinical and laboratory 1,612 5,251 remain suspects.
Among pregnant women, 522 have positive laboratory results.
In the last week analyzed, the INS detected 5,456 new infections.
Zika virus is present in 235 municipalities in Colombia, 44% of them in the Midwest and 20.9% in the Caribbean.
Although in general the symptoms are mild zika low-fever, headaches and joint or suspected sarpullidos- pregnant may have babies with microcephaly, an irreversible congenital disease that causes irreparable damage to the child's cognitive and motor development.
In Colombia, where the Ministry of Health zika linked to three deaths of patients with Guillain-Barre syndrome (a neurological disorder), more than 600,000 infected by the virus are expected this year and a half thousand cases of microcephaly if the situation repeats that Brazil lives, the worst hit country with more than one million and a half cases.
The virus will spread throughout the Americas except Canada and Chile, said the World Health Organization (WHO).
AFP
Zika cases are 37.011, 6.356 of them in pregnant women, according to the latest epidemiological bulletin with data up to 13 February.
Of all those infected, 30,148 are confirmed by clinical and laboratory 1,612 5,251 remain suspects.
Among pregnant women, 522 have positive laboratory results.
In the last week analyzed, the INS detected 5,456 new infections.
Zika virus is present in 235 municipalities in Colombia, 44% of them in the Midwest and 20.9% in the Caribbean.
Although in general the symptoms are mild zika low-fever, headaches and joint or suspected sarpullidos- pregnant may have babies with microcephaly, an irreversible congenital disease that causes irreparable damage to the child's cognitive and motor development.
In Colombia, where the Ministry of Health zika linked to three deaths of patients with Guillain-Barre syndrome (a neurological disorder), more than 600,000 infected by the virus are expected this year and a half thousand cases of microcephaly if the situation repeats that Brazil lives, the worst hit country with more than one million and a half cases.
The virus will spread throughout the Americas except Canada and Chile, said the World Health Organization (WHO).