Zika virus : Symptoms, Causes, Risk Factors , Treatment and Prevention

Zika Virus is a disease, which is spread by mosquito bites.
In most cases, there are no symptoms. In some cases, Zika can cause paralysis (Guillain-Barré syndrome). In pregnant women, it can cause later birth defects.
If present, symptoms are mild and last less than a week.

These include fever, rash, joint pain and red eyes.

Zika virus : Symptoms, Causes, Risk Factors , Treatment and Prevention

There is no vaccine or specific treatment. Instead, the focus is on relieving symptoms and includes rest, rehydration and acetaminophen for fever and pain.

Table of Contents

• 1 Symptoms in Zika Virus Patient
• 2 Zika Virus Prevention
• 3 Zika Virus Treatment Images
• 4 Causes and risk factors
• 5 Zika virus: Kanpur records 60 New Cases in last 24 hours

1. Symptoms in Zika Virus Patient
2. Zika Virus Prevention
3. Zika Virus Treatment Images
4. Causes and risk factors
5. Zika virus: Kanpur records 60 New Cases in last 24 hours

Symptoms in Zika Virus Patient

Zika virus may be asymptomatic, or the symptoms may be vague and mild. They last for up to a week.

Initial symptoms include:

• fever
• joint pain
• conjunctivitis, or red eyes
• muscle aches
• headache
• pain behind the eyes

Infection with the Zika virus is rarely serious enough to warrant hospitalization, and it is even rarer for an individual to die as a result.

Zika Virus Prevention

Zika Virus Treatment Images

Causes and risk factors

Traveling to an area where Zika is present is the most important risk factor for the virus.

It is mainly transmitted by mosquito bites, but it can also be transmitted:

• From a pregnant woman to her fetus
• Through sexual contact
• Possibly through a blood transfusion
• To date, there have been no known transmissions of the virus from mother to infant during breastfeeding.

Once a person has had the virus, they will be protected against it in the future.

How Zika virus spread ?

By animal or insect bites or stings.
By having unprotected vaginal, anal or oral sex

Hindi Name of Zika Virus ?

Dengue

Which mosquito spreads zika virus?

Aedes Mosquito

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Zika virus: Kanpur records 60 New Cases in last 24 hours

KANPUR: Thirty more Zika cases were reported in Uttar Padesh’s Kanpur on Thursday.

As many as 66 people have tested positive in the city since the detection of the first case of

The 60 new cases were reported from the tests performed at the virology laboratory of KGMU University and National Institute of Virology, Pune. Among the new cases are three of the infected women and 27 men consisting of children, young and elderly.