Zika Virus Disease: A re-emerging disease with pandemic potential
Journal Title: International Journal of Medical and Health Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 3
Abstract
Emerging and reemerging disease are increasing in the recent past posing great threat to the human population. Re-emerging communicable diseases are those which are known and reappear after a decline in incidence. The Zika virus, a re- emerging arbovirus, spread by Aedes mosquitoes is causing a panic across continents over the globe. With the information being published every day gives us an alarming insight into how a virus thought to cause a mild disease has reemerged into a novel pathogen with its high potential to cause devastating complications. The clinical presentation of Zika virus disease is nonspecific with mild fever, rash, arthralgia, and conjunctivitis and mimics other arboviral diseases like dengue and chikungunya. The current outbreak of the Zika Virus Disease and its associations with Guillain-Barré syndrome and microcephaly has entranced the human population with a new challenge. The transmission and maintenance of the virus in the human population remains to be elucidated and the best strategy in winning over the current situation is to control or eliminate the vector population. The morbidity and mortality in the hands of such re-emerging viruses with new dimensions is unpredictable and overwhelming. It is therefore important to reanalyze the previous outbreaks and intensify the need to identify the factors responsible for the spread of the vector and the reason behind its increased virulence pattern especially its neurotropic attitude.
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Chitra Rajalaksmi, Rajani Ranganath
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