国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語(yǔ)Fran?ais
China
Home / China / World

Zika virus casts its shadow on carnival

By Xinhua in Rio de Janeiro | China Daily | Updated: 2016-02-01 07:57

The rapid spread of the Zika virus across Brazil is giving local authorities a headache as the country is gearing up for the annual carnival celebrations. In the past few weeks, the country's health authorities have increased preventive measures and awareness campaigns in the hope of reducing the disease's impact in major tourist cities such as Rio de Janeiro.

During rehearsals for street bands' parades and samba performances, flyers are distributed advising citizens to empty disused flower vases or buckets in case the stagnant water there becomes a breeding ground for Aedes aegypti mosquito, carrier of the Zika virus.

Healthcare agents have been going door-to-door in the city in search of areas where Aedes larvae might be. There are more than 3,000 people helping with this task, according to Rio's municipal administration.

Citizens have been recommended to use insect repellent and wear long-sleeved clothes. Unfortunately the latter is not a particularly easy task due to Rio's current scorching summer heat.

Pesticide sprayers are making extra visits to samba schools and the renowned Sambadrome, where the schools will parade during the carnival. Sprinkling trucks carrying pesticides are also seen moving around the city.

Even before the Zika outbreak, mosquito prevention had been a public health focus in Brazil during summer, as the Aedes aegypti mosquito reproduces faster during warm and rainy periods and it also spreads the dengue fever, yellow fever and chikungunya.

Over the past few months, Zika rose from a relatively insignificant new virus in Brazil to the country's most pressing public healthcare concern. Zika infections were reported earlier in Asia and Africa, and the virus is now spreading fast in many parts of the world.

As the Zika virus is fairly new to Brazil, the population had no antibodies and the number of infections surged in the country. Due to the milder nature of the disease, the Brazilian health authorities had not taken it seriously.

Doctors find link

However, after local doctors found a link between Zika and the rising number of babies born with microcephaly in the country, concerns over this previously overlooked disease skyrocketed.

Microcephaly refers to an abnormally smaller head in newborn babies. It may lead to developmental delays and often comes with other health conditions, such as sight and heart congenital diseases.

Health authorities found out that many Brazilian women who had babies with microcephaly had been infected with the Zika virus in the early months of their pregnancies.

This caused uproar among the country's female population and prompted some women to postpone their plans to get pregnant in the near future.

More than 4,000 suspected cases of microcephaly have been identified in Brazil.

So far, 270 have been officially confirmed to have links to the Zika virus, and further testing is underway.

Editor's picks
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
交城县| 盘锦市| 木兰县| 静安区| 交口县| 喀什市| 沙坪坝区| 习水县| 德州市| 大连市| 泾川县| 建始县| 溧水县| 马关县| 莱阳市| 哈密市| 新野县| 新竹县| 祁阳县| 阳城县| 涟源市| 岫岩| 德兴市| 策勒县| 乐清市| 龙陵县| 故城县| 上高县| 道孚县| 沁水县| 固始县| 六枝特区| 木兰县| 扶绥县| 玉屏| 抚顺县| 芦溪县| 开远市| 甘谷县| 出国| 巴林左旗|