Friday, January 29, 2016

ZIKA VIRUS; ROCKEFELLER; PEACE CORPS


ZIKA VIRUS; ROCKEFELLER; PEACE CORPS





http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2016/01/zika-virus-rockefeller-peace-corps.html

ZIKA VIRUS; ROCKEFELLER; PEACE CORPS



The USA's first confirmed cases of the Zika virus are in Los Angeles County, Virginia and Minnesota.

Pregnant mothers with the Zika virus can produce deformed children.

The virus is spread by mosquitoes.



The Zika story begins in Uganda.

The Uganda/East African Virus Research Institute, in Entebbe, Uganda, was established in 1936 by the Rockefeller Foundation.

The institute has a field station at the Zika Forest near Entebbe.[1]

In 1947 scientists placed a rhesus macaque in a cage in the Zika Forest, near the institute in Entebbe, Uganda.

The monkey developed a fever, and researchers isolated from its serum a transmissible agent that was first described as Zika virus in 1952.[35] 

It was subsequently isolated from a human in Nigeria in 1954. 



From its discovery until 2007, confirmed cases of Zika virus infection from Africa and Southeast Asia were rare.[36]

In April 2007 the first outbreak outside of Africa and Asia occurred on the island ofYap in the Federated States of Micronesia.

The American Peace Corps has been active in Yap since 1966. Other US-based non-profit organizations, including Habele, have an ongoing presence on Yap.

Since April 2015, a large, ongoing outbreak of Zika virus that began in Brazil has spread to much of South and Central America, and the Caribbean.

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