Tag: zika

QCOSTARICA - Very few tourists, mainly pregnant women, have cancelled their trips to Costa Rica after the country was included in the list of nations with the Zika virus. In report by La Nacion, says the information was confirmed by the Minister of Tourism, Mauricio...

TODAY COLOMBIA - Colombia has confirmed the first three deaths of patients infected with the Zika virus who had contracted a seemingly related disease that attacks the nervous system and causes paralysis. Alejandro Gaviria, the health minister, told the Guardian that another two deaths caused...

Q24N - Two articles today on the Zika virus say a great deal about the way the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and about people in Central and South America. And yes, its relevant. The Washington Post says the CDC is "incredibly condescending"...

QCOSTARICA  by Wilberth Villalobos Castrillo, Vozdeguanacaste.com - As if the cases of Dengue and Chikungunya in Nicoya weren’t enough already, now the Zika virus threatens to overshadow the inhabitants of the canton and the country after the Atlanta Center for Disease Control and Prevention...

The Aedes aegypti, one mosquito, three viruses.

TODAY NICARAGUA | Nicaragua reports two cases of the Zika virus, two women in the capital of Managua, said First Lady and government spokeswoman, Rosario Murillo. Murillo said Health ministry lab tests confirmed the presence of Zika after the women displayed symptoms including fever, joint...

(EFE, with additional reporting by the Q) - The Zika virus, which has spread across a large part of Latin America, is the cause of abnormally small heads in newborn babies, a condition known as microcephaly, Brazil's Health Ministry confirmed Saturday. In Costa Rica, Ministry...

(QCOSTARICA) The Ministery of Health (Ministerio de Salud) is on alert for the possible arrival of the Zika virus whose first cases in Latin America were in Brazil in February. The Zika virus is similar to Dengue Fever, with symptoms which include fever, joint and...