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Weekly Report - 11 February 2016 (WR-16-06)
BRAZIL: Few good options available to tackle Zika
On 5 February, just hours ahead of the official start of Carnival, researchers from the respected public health institute, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, announced that they had discovered active samples of the Zika virus in saliva and urine. This did not, however, appear to put much of a dampener on the traditionally sexually-charged street parties that characterise much of the five-day event in Brazil’s major cities, leading some experts to fear the event may have accelerated the spread of the virus. Active elements of the Zika virus have also been found in semen and breast milk, but there is still a vast amount of uncertainty about the transmission of the disease. With the clinical nature of the link between Zika and microcephaly also still unknown, the government is attempting to tackle rumour and panic, as much as the Aedes Aegypti mosquito.
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