First found in 1947, the mosquito-borne virus Zika virus reached epidemic proportions in Brazil in 2015, when 1000's of infants had been born with microcephaly, a dysfunction that causes infants to be born with abnormally small heads and underdeveloped brains.
"There has been a surge in cases of the Zika virus and the health department has formed several teams to contain the spread," Dr Nepal Singh, chief medical officer of Kanpur district in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh, advised Reuters."There is one woman who is pregnant and we are paying special attention towards her."Cases have been reported in a number of Indian states lately, although Amit Mohan Prasad, Uttar Pradesh's prime authorities bureaucrat for well being and household welfare, advised Reuters this was the primary outbreak within the state.
The first Zika case within the industrial metropolis of Kanpur was detected on October 23 and the quantity of cases has elevated over the previous week."People are testing positive because we are doing very aggressive contact tracing," mentioned Prasad.Authorities had been rising their surveillance of the outbreak and eliminating breeding grounds for the mosquitoes that transmit the virus, Singh mentioned.
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