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Barbados Is Free Of Active Zika Transmission

Barbados Is Free Of Active Zika Transmission

BARBADOS,  October 19, 2018 - The World Health Organization (WHO) has removed its Zika virus country classification scheme which categorized Barbados and most of the Caribbean as having active Zika virus transmission.

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To date 200,000 Zika cases have been confirmed, more than half from Brazil, were 2,618 children born with confirmed congenital syndrome associated with Zika virus infection.

Zika virus outbreak continues - 200,000 confirmed cases since global emergency

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, CMC – The Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) says experts are still grappling to understand the mosquito borne Zika virus even as the world marks one year since a global Public Health Emergency was declared due to the rapid spread of the virus from Brazil to 75 other countries, including most in the Caribbean and Latin America.

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  • Countries Caribbean
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CARPHA executive director, Dr. C. James Hospedales says reported figures are only laboratory confirmed positive cases and do not represent everyone who has been infected,

CARPHA denies covering up Zika caases in the Caribbean

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, Oct 3, CMC – The Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) is dismissing suggestions that it along with governments are trying to “cover up the real figures” of the mosquito-borne Zika virus cases in the region.

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  • Countries Caribbean
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Maternal and Child Health Adviser, Dr. Natalia Largaespada Beer, said the surveillance of the effects of exposed infants have now expanded to not only microcephaly, but to other congenital malformations related to zika such as genitourinary, cardiac and digestive systems, hearing and visual abnormalities.

Belize confirms near 50 cases of Zika virus

BELMOPAN, Belize, Sept 28, CMC – At least six pregnant women are among the 46 confirmed cases of the mosquito-borne Zika virus, health authorities here have confirmed.

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Dominica's Chief Medical Officer Dr. David Johnson

Dominica confirms seven Zika cases among pregnant women

ROSEAU, Dominica, Sept 7, CMC – Dominica has confirmed that seven pregnant women had contracted the mosquito-borne Zika virus in addition to two other cases of persons with the Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS), in which a person’s own immune system damages the nerve cells, causing muscle weakness, and sometimes, paralysis.
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