Virus itself. Lack of knowledge and misinformation has stoked apprehension and fear among many. According to the World Health Organization some of the reasons why we dont know more about this disease include a relatively small proportion of about one in four, some say one in five of people develop symptoms, a virus only detectable for a few days and infected peoples blood. The failure of current tests to definitively distinguish zika from similar viruses such as dengue. Especially pregnant women wear protective clothing and stay indoors if possible with Windows Doors or screened. Or diligently protect against mosquito bites if travel is unavoidable. Currently no therapeutics exist to treat zika virus nor is there a vaccine. But that gap need not be forever. One of our distinguished Witnesses Today, doctor Anthony Fauci will explain the scope of nih research on the zika virus as well as Vector Control. Surely Lessons Learned from years of malaria Vector Control have ek witability to zik
Economy is likely to grow in coming days. Coming decades. As we address the immediate needs of the zikaaffected population, we must underscore the need to improve National Systems to prevent and dictate response to these pathogens. And i think this is the effort at the heart of the Global Health security agenda launched in early 2014. Beyond dealing with individual outbreaks we are seeing as dr. Fauci put as a perpetual challenge, one come after the other, we need to also Pay Attention to the land scape, better understand the territory where the usaid has supported work that builds capacity and helps predict and mitigate the impact of noble high consequence pathoges. Each year we take hundreds of pathogens and screen and make sure they dont jump into the human space. We find them in primates, in birds, we find them in bats, with he find them in rodents. But its not an infinite landscape. There is a logic to it, and we want to make sure science is brought to bear to address and indeed p
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Can t they sequence the big virruses in the parliament?
Christian
Thursday, 24 December 2020 01:48 PM
It is a pity they obviously don t pass their expertise to the government about burying Covid19 victims, so they can continue their inhuman, criminal mandatory cremations
John Dias
Thursday, 24 December 2020 01:25 PM
Government must make sure that newly detected virus strain in UK is not enter Sri Lanka because if it come so, it would be an alarming and dangerous situation as alerted by experts like her and her team. So, don t find political advantage but execute effective plans.
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Thursday, 24 December 2020 01:40 PM
Its not more dangerous its faster spreading only from human to human.. so long we dont have a medicine the virus will mutate.. positive news is that the vacine is coming 2021..