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Weekly Report - 04 February 2016 (WR-16-05)
BRAZIL: Rallying to fight Zika
The only applause received by President Dilma Rousseff during her address to a joint house of congress on 2 February came when she promised that no resources would be spared in the fight against Zika, the mosquito-borne disease linked to a rise in microcephaly. Over 200,000 soldiers have been mobilised to help carry out house-to-house searches for potential mosquito breeding sites; health workers, meanwhile, have been authorised to enter homes, by force if necessary, to eliminate the standing pools of water that nurture the Aedes Aegypti. Health officials estimate that around 80% of mosquito-breeding sites are located on people’s properties.
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