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The Horrific Toll on Humanity from the Zika Virus
If you have been paying attention to the headlines, you may have heard about the Zika virus. However, do you know what Zika is and how it harms people? Can you identify the areas to avoid and the precautions to take to protect yourself if you need to go to those places?
In this article, we are going to examine Zika; it’s symptoms, and how it affects adults and the irreparable harm it does to children.
Zika is World Wide
The Zika virus isn’t a disease found only in the developing world; it is found in many places on the globe including the continents of Africa, Asia, all the Americas and in the Caribbean and the Pacific islands as well.
The world first became aware of the Zika virus when scientists were studying yellow fever in the Ugandan Zika forest in 1947 in the monkey population. The next year these same scientists found that the Zika virus was transmitted to the monkeys by the Aedes mosquitoes that lived in the region.
In 1964, scientists detected the first case of the Zika virus humans after researchers found antibodies for Zika in the blood of people living in Uganda and…
