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An important source of state government claimed that a team of CIMR officials had interviewed about 775 pregnant women in the Amraiwadi area until Wednesday. . So far, some 70,418 dwellings and a population of 4.21 lakh have been surveyed during intensive operations of one week. Mosquito breeding was found in 1,914 outbreaks and approximately 157 blood samples from pregnant women were collected.
When the Zika virus infects pregnant women, especially during the first trimester, it is badociated with severe birth defects such as microcephaly, a condition in which the baby's head is significantly smaller than expected, often in reason for abnormal brain development. The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which transmits chikungunya and dengue viruses, is also a vector of the Zika virus.
The government's primary responsibility is to its citizens. In the case of globally-declared and emergency-free diseases, public awareness plays a key role in controlling its spread, especially vector-borne diseases. It is therefore ironic that the citizens of Ahmedabad and its medical fraternity have still not been informed even after an epidemic in Rajasthan. Many Amdavadis living in shawls and slums in the city have no idea of the Zika virus and its dangers to pregnant women. Public information is the only way to contain the risks of the epidemic in the coming months.
Although the state government officially alerted health workers in the cities of Gujarat as of October 9, active surveillance of Zika began on October 21 in areas where a woman was suspected of 39, be infected with the Zika virus. But to date, there has been no public awareness activity in Ahmedabad – no public announcements, information boards similar to those seen for dengue fever, chikungunya or swine flu. Experts warned that such information restrictions following an epidemic were detrimental.
The detection of Zika virus cases is important because, in two months, the State will host the Vibrant Gujarat Vibrant World Trade Summit, which will bring together delegates from some of the countries that experienced a zika epidemic during the period 2015-2016. In India, the first outbreak was reported in Ahmedabad between November and February 2017, the second in Tamil Nadu's Krishnagiri district in July of that year.
Last year, two pregnant women out of a total of three cases were tested positive for Zika. In contrast to the symptoms of South American zika, one of these women had no rash, myalgia, arthralgia, conjunctivitis, headache, retro-orbital pain, hemorrhage or other clbadic symptoms of zikV.
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