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Zika virus infection first case detected in Australia
The disease is detected in a tourist returning from Brazil.
Doctors say that the patient is not pregnant, there is no danger of the virus to spread in the country.
VIENNA, AUSTRIA (28 / JAN / 2016) .- Austria has detected the first case of Zika virus infection in a tourist returning from a holiday in Brazil, public radio ORF reported Thursday.
Doctors at the Institute of Tropical Medicine of the University of Vienna have stressed that not being pregnant patient there is no danger and it is expected that more cases among those who have traveled to Latin America are detected.
“Four out of five patients will not even know” that they have the virus, the doctor Herwig Kollaritsch Austrian agency APA said, you will not have “no importance unless you are pregnant.”
In addition, the climate of Austria is so cold that there is a no risk that can proliferate mosquitoes that transmit this virus, of which cases of transmission between humans is unknown.
The risk exists for pregnant women or women who want to be, therefore, the expert urges caution when traveling to Latin American countries, where there have been the most cases.
The infection is caused by Zika virus the bite of infected mosquitoes of the genus Aedes aegypti, and usually generates mild fever, rashes, conjunctivitis and muscle aches.
The zika affects 22 American countries and has forced governments in the region to take extreme measures, such as Brazil and Dominican Republic, which have deployed military forces to contain the mosquito that transmits the virus.
