Is India Geared to Face The Zika Virus?

Posted on 08 February 2016. Tags: Face, Geared, INDIA, virus, Zika

If you think Zika virus does not pose a threat to India, you may be wrong. Did you know that India has had a history of Zika virus attacks as early as in the 1950s? An expert team of National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune had published a paper in 1953, after testing the exposure of Indians to 15 insect-borne diseases, one of which was by the Zika virus.
 
Now that the virus is continuously evolving and WHO declaring it as an international public health emergency, India needs to be particularly conscious about the spread of the disease. The mosquito that carries the virus actually thrives in the country.
 
The worrying fact is that the Zika virus, which is transmitted by the bite of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, has already infected as many as four million people in the Americas. The Pan American Health Organization says Zika has spread in 24 nations and territories in the Americas.
 
Although, the virus has no vaccine or cure yet, there are few tips you can follow to be safe from the deadly virus. Click on further slides for your guidelines…
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