Country’s ministry of health stopped publicly releasing data on epidemic diseases final year and doctors worry it is hamstringing effort to combat the virusDoctors in Venezuela have called on the government to publish statistics approximately the Zika virus,warning that the South American country, which borders nations that are hotbeds of the illness, and could already be facing an epidemic.
Venezuela’s ministry of health has so far limited itself to confirming the presence of the mosquito-borne illness suspected of causing birth defects. It used to publish weekly data on all epidemic diseases,but stopped making those statistics public final year.
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Source: theguardian.com