The worst-hit country, Brazil, has reported several thousand cases, while some patients have already been diagnosed in Europe after returning from trips to South and Central America.
The World Health Organization is meeting urgently in early February to analyze the danger posed by the dreaded virus, which would lead, according to scientifically unverified theories, to the birth of children with unusually small skulls.
Alexandru Rafila tells RFI that the Zika virus “is dangerous only insofar as it will be shown that there is a correlation between the infection it usually causes and the appearance of congenital malformations in mothers who have gone through the infection. So the problem is related of the pathology of the pregnant woman, if she becomes ill during pregnancy with this virus “.
“As for the infection itself, even if there are a large number of cases in a tropical area of South and Central America, then we can say that it is a serious or important thing. Fortunately, this infection does not cause complications. and it heals on its own and many of the cases are inapparent, meaning the infected person does not know they are sick, “the specialist explains.
“Is it a danger to Europe, to our country? It cannot be questioned at this time, because given that the disease is transmitted through a vector, which is the mosquito, we cannot discuss the transmission of this disease, at least this season and there is no history of the transmission of this disease on the European continent, although the virus has been isolated since 1947 “, says Alexandru Rafila.
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