| Journal: | Investigación clínica |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000389040 |
| ISSN: | 0535-5133 |
| Authors: | Valero, Nereida1 |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Season: | Sep |
| Volumen: | 56 |
| Number: | 3 |
| Pages: | 241-242 |
| Country: | Venezuela |
| Language: | Español |
| Document type: | Editorial |
| Approach: | Descriptivo, divulgación |
| English abstract | Current health conditions of Venezuela, together with the tropical proliferation of different types of Aedes (aegypti and albopictus), suggest the arrival to this country of ZIKA virus (ZIKV). The Pan American Health Organization urges Latin American countries to take measures to prevent the ZIKV entry and advises that these measures must be designed to detect the introduction of ZIKV in an area, track its spread and actively monitor the disease. In Venezuela and other Latin-American countries, where endemicity is high for other arboviruses such as dengue and chikungunya, health authorities should strengthen their surveillance systems to detect early and timely introduction of ZIKV and refine diagnostic methods to confirm the infection rate; however, the high incidence of cases due those viral agents reflects weakened and poorly timed insensitive monitoring systems, as well as, poor vector control measures, arising the questions: will this arbovirus pop in our country, will it set as the other as endemic- epidemic and lead to alter their clinical behavior and severity of the disease? |
| Disciplines: | Medicina |
| Keyword: | Salud pública, Virus, Virus del Zika, Epidemiología, Enfermedades emergentes, Venezuela |
| Keyword: | Medicine, Public health, Virus, Zika virus, Epidemiology, Emergent diseases, Venezuela |
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