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Disease virus Zika 

Data and numbers

-This disease is caused by a virus transmitted primarily by Aedes

mosquitoes virus.-Patients with disease Zika virus may have symptoms such as: not veryhigh fever rash con!unctivitis muscle and !oint pain discomfort orheadaches which usually last between " and # days.-At the moment there is no vaccine or speci$c treatment for this disease.-The best way to prevent it is the protection against mosquito bites.-%t is known that the virus circulating in Africa the Americas Asia andthe Paci$c.

IntroductionZika virus is an emerging mosquito-borne virus that was $rst identi$ed in&ganda in '()# in rhesus monkeys through a monitoring network of !ungle yellow fever. *ater in '(+" he was identi$ed in humans in&ganda and the &nited ,epublic of Tanania. There have been outbreaksof this virus disease in Africa the Americas Asia and the Paci$c.

Genus: lavivirusVector: Aedes mosquitoes /usually bite during the day especially atdawn and dusk 0 dawn1Reservoir: unknown

Signs and symptoms

 The incubation period of the disease Zika virus /time between e2posureand onset of symptoms time1 is unclear but probably a few days.3ymptoms are similar to those of other arboviral infections includingdengue and include fever rash con!unctivitis muscle and !oint aches malaise and headache 4 usually mild and last between " and # days.

Transmisión

5l virus de Zika se transmite a las personas a trav6s de la picadura demosquitos infectados del g6nero Aedes y sobre todo de Aedesaegypti en las regiones tropicales. 5ste mosquito es el mismo quetransmite el dengue la $ebre chikungunya y la $ebre amarilla.Asimismo es posible la transmisi7n se2ual y se est8n investigandootros modos de transmisi7n como las transfusiones de sangre y latransmisi7n perinatal.

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*os primeros brotes de enfermedad por el virus de Zika sedescribieron en el Pac9$co en "# y "'; /<ap y Polinesia francesarespectivamente1 y en las Am6ricas /=rasil y >olombia1 y ?frica />abo@erde1 en "'+. esde el ' de enero de "# se ha noti$cado latransmisi7n del virus en B) pa9ses y territorios.