At the same time, the World Health Organization has warned that the global outbreak, which began in Brazil, is spreading “explosively”, and pegged Asia as vulnerable to the disease, for which there is no cure and no vaccine.
There have been no confirmed cases in Myanmar.
The virus has been linked to deformities in infants including microcephaly, and the rare paralysis-inducing autoimmune disease Guillian-Barre Syndrome, but does not cause symptoms in up to 80 percent of patients. Those who do experience symptoms may see signs similar to dengue infections, including fever, skin rash, muscle and joint pain, and a headache, according to the WHO. Although the Zika virus was first identified in Uganda in 1947, few cases were identified until an isolated outbreak in 2007 in Micronesia, and then another, large outbreak in Polynesia in 2013. The current outbreak has affected several million people, primarily in the Americas. (Courtesy of Myanmar Times)
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