{"title":"Zika virus: Alarming!!!","authors":"Sadia Choudhury Shimmi, Urban John Arnold D'Souza, Zaw Lin","doi":"10.51200/bjms.v11i1.641","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Zika, a mosquito-borne flavivirus was identified in Uganda in 1947 in monkeys. From 1960s to 1980s, the zika viral diseases have been recorded in different parts of the world like Asia, Americas, Africa and the Pacific. Spreading of this viral disease has been observed in more than 60 countries and territories. Brazil has reported the relationship between ZIKV (zika virus) infection with Guillain-Barré syndrome and microcephaly in 2015. ZIKV has been confirmed in Malaysia and affected areas are Sabah, Johor, Selangor, Sarawak, and the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya. Up to December, 2016, 8 cases in Malaysia and 458 cases in Singapore have been reported.","PeriodicalId":9287,"journal":{"name":"Borneo Journal of Medical Sciences (BJMS)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Borneo Journal of Medical Sciences (BJMS)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.51200/bjms.v11i1.641","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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寨卡病毒:令人担忧!!
寨卡是一种蚊子传播的黄病毒,1947年在乌干达的猴子身上被发现。从20世纪60年代到80年代,寨卡病毒疾病在亚洲、美洲、非洲和太平洋等世界不同地区都有记录。已在60多个国家和领土观察到这种病毒性疾病的传播。巴西报告了2015年寨卡病毒感染Guillain-Barré综合征与小头畸形之间的关系。马来西亚已确认寨卡病毒,受影响地区为沙巴、柔佛、雪兰莪、沙捞越以及吉隆坡和布城联邦直辖区。截至2016年12月,马来西亚报告8例,新加坡报告458例。
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