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Category: Guillain-Barré syndrome

Posted on July 10, 2017July 11, 2017

Now, one Zika case reported from Tamil Nadu, India

There seems to be low-level transmission of Zika virus in India After three adults tested positive for Zika virus in Ahmedabad district, Gujarat in January this year, an adult male…

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Posted on April 15, 2016June 28, 2016

A ‘turning point’ in the Zika outbreak

More than 50 years after the infectious pathogen, rubella virus, was identified as the cause of an epidemic of congenital defects, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in…

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Posted on March 2, 2016March 21, 2016

Zika virus might cause Guillain-Barré syndrome, a French Polynesia study shows

The first evidence that Zika virus might be causing Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), a severe neurological disorder, has emerged from a retrospective study of 42 patients diagnosed with GBS during the Zika virus outbreak in…

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Posted on March 1, 2016March 21, 2016

First diagnostic test kit for Zika virus already created

If all goes well and as expected, the validation process of the first diagnostic test kit capable of diagnosing Zika, dengue and chikungunya simultaneously will be completed by the end…

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Posted on March 1, 2016March 1, 2016

Zika Virus – “it really felt like having bad sunburn, all over your body” — by BMJ talk medicine

In this BMJ talk medicine podcast find out how Zika, once a little known virus causing a rash and fever, has subsequently become a global health emergency. How the infection is…

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Posted on February 5, 2016March 21, 2016

Novel approaches to fight Aedes aegypti mosquito

An estimated 390 million dengue infections occurring each year across 150-odd countries is proof that the current mosquito control measures are grossly inadequate to keep the Aedes species, the vector…

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Posted on February 3, 2016June 21, 2016

Editorial: Gearing up for the Zika threat

The World Health Organization has declared that the outbreak of Zika and congenital malformations and neurological disorders in newborns believed to be connected to the virus is a global public…

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