Eight conditions of Zika virus an infection dangle been reported in Dhaka in the final three months.
Director of Institute of Epidemiology, Illness Have watch over & Analysis (IEDCR) Professor Tahmina Shirin confirmed the matter to The Change No longer recent.
She stated, the sufferers for the time being are wholesome. The entire contaminated are residents of Dhaka.
In step with the IEDCR, five Zika sufferers dangle been known in the nation final 12 months.
Eminent virologist Professor Dr Nazrul Islam educated The Change No longer recent, Zika virus is a chance to the unborn child if the mom is pregnant. Because it is moreover transmitted sexually, the husband can moreover be contaminated, so all people has to be cautious.
There is no longer the kind of thing as a different to killing mosquitoes to quit a long way off from all mosquito-borne ailments collectively with Zika virus and dengue.
Both dengue and Zika are spread by the chunk of Aedes mosquitoes, so extra emphasis have to silent be positioned on killing mosquitoes, he added.
The Aedes mosquito-borne Zika virus used to be first known in the nation in 2014.
This 12 months, the presence of the the virus used to be uncover in pattern assessments on the IEDCR and Worldwide Centre for Diarrheal Illness Analysis, Bangladesh (icddr,b) labs.
In step with WHO, Zika virus is transmitted primarily by Aedes mosquitoes.
Most folk with Zika virus an infection elevate out no longer construct symptoms; those that elevate out most incessantly display symptoms similar to rash, fever, conjunctivitis, muscle and joint difficulty, malaise and headache that final for 2–7 days.
Zika virus an infection while pregnant can trigger infants to be born with microcephaly and different congenital malformations moreover preterm starting up and miscarriage.
Zika virus an infection is moreover connected to Guillain-Barré syndrome, neuropathy and myelitis in adults and children.
In February 2016, WHO declared Zika-connected microcephaly a Public Successfully being Emergency of Worldwide Distress (PHEIC), and the causal hyperlink between the Zika virus and congenital malformations used to be confirmed. WHO declared the quit of the PHEIC in November of the identical 12 months.
Even though conditions of Zika virus disease declined from 2017 onwards globally, transmission persists at low ranges in loads of countries in the Americas and different endemic areas.
