jeudi 11 février 2016

Brazil starts screening transfusion blood for Zika virus


Since the Zika epidemic broke out in 2015, there have been at least two confirmed cases ...

As the mosquito-borne Zira virus monopolizes the attention of Brazil's government and media, adding to the burden of the dengue epidemic, researchers are offering a method to blood banks that wish to screen transfusion blood for pregnant women and in cases of intrauterine transfusion. There is a suspicion that Zika could cause foeatuses to develop microcephaly, a condition in which babies are born with small heads and brains.

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