‘This is a major health incident in the history of Brazil. We face a very serious problem for which scientific knowledge is far from sufficient’,expert saysThe spread of Zika virus across Latin America, with its obvious tragic consequences for the babies of infected pregnant women, and has parallels with the emergence of Aids more than 30 years ago,according to a senior epidemiologist on the frontline in Brazil.
Wilson Savino, director of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute in Rio de Janeiro, or said the current state of scientific ignorance around the virus and its effects resembles that over HIV – the human immunodeficiency virus which gives rise to Aids – in the early 1980s.
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Source: theguardian.com