INTC 2P97 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Aedes Albopictus, Radial Glial Cell, Yellow Fever
11 Dec 2016
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Tropical infection new to the western hemisphere the who declares. Vaccines ae hard to make because the infections are not always predictable- multiple strains. Zika can cause: mild fever, red eyes, headache and joint pain, skin rash, onset of infection is usually 2-7 days, 1-4 people with zika infection develop symptoms, a very small number of people will develop complications. The virus: arbovirus, flavivrididas family, flavivirus genus, related to the dengue, yellow fever, japanese encephalitis and west nile viruses, rna enveloped. Complications: scientific consensus that zika virus is caused at microcephaly and guillain-barre syndrome intense efforts are continuing to investigate the link between zika virus and a range of neurological disorders, within a rigorous research framework. Mosquitos: zika is a mosquito-borne virus transmitted by aedes. Mosquitoes: the same mosquito also transmits 3 other vector-borne diseases de(cid:374)gue, (cid:272)hiku(cid:374)gu(cid:374)ya, yello(cid:449) fe(cid:448)er- across tropical and sub tropic regions around the world.
