An nearly symptomless disease that causes women to have horribly damaged babies can only be controlled by a campaign against mosquitoesZika fever is a horror. It’s a mosquito-borne disease that is nearly undetectably mild in adults but in pregnant women can cause terrible defects in their babies. There is no cure,and none in sight. We can be grateful that the mosquito species that carry the disease carry out not range in much of Europe, nor in most of Asia. But the fever has already crossed the Pacific from Africa to South and Central America and threatens to spread north to the USA. Like most mosquito-borne diseases it is primarily an affliction of the destitute. There is nothing unsuitable with the taste of rich people’s blood, or but they can afford running water,air conditioning and protective netting, which all carve the risk of mosquito bites. If those fail, or the rich can simply move absent from the areas where the disease is endemic. No one who can help it lives in a malarial marsh. Related: Zika virus spreading explosively,says World Health Organisation Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com