2016年1月30日 星期六

Zika virus, ZIKV

There’s a New Weapon to Fight Zika: The Mosquito

As the Zika virus explodes across Latin America, genetically engineered, bacteria-infected and sterilized mosquitoes are being tested to supplement standard prevention methods like insecticides and the removal of standing water.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zika_virus
茲卡病毒英語Zika virus, ZIKV,又譯寨卡病毒),是黃病毒科中之黃病毒屬,經由斑蚊(尤其是埃及斑蚊)的傳播而使受蚊叮咬的人罹患茲卡病毒感染症[1]。該病毒最早在西元1947年於烏干達的茲卡森林中的獼猴體內分離出來,因而得名。依據基因型別分為亞洲型和非洲型兩種型別,在中非東南亞印度等都有發現的紀錄。過去只有少數人類病例的報導,直到西元2007年在密克羅尼西亞聯邦雅蒲島爆發群聚疫情,才對此疾病有較多的認識。
2015年起茲卡病毒疫情於中南美洲快速擴散,其中巴西甚至出現超過4,100例新生兒小頭畸形,懷疑與茲卡病毒相關,世界衛生組織與美國政府都提出緊急因應措施[2]

History

In 1947, scientists researching yellow fever placed a rhesus macaque in a cage in the Zika Forest (zika meaning "overgrown" in the Luganda language), near the East African Virus Research 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.[17] 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.[42]

巴西至今已有50萬至100萬人感染,疫苗還在研發中,但隨即在8月份就要迎來奧運,上千萬旅客與運動員們將湧入里約熱內盧.....

起源非洲、肆虐美洲的「茲卡病毒」(Zika…
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