Health: Brazil links Zika fever to birth defects

The Brazilian wellbeing service has affirmed a connection between a mosquito-borne infection from Africa, Zika Fever, and a high rate of conception deformities.

The fever, it said, is behind a spike in instances of smaller scale encephalitis - an irritation of the mind contracted in the first months of pregnancy.

It has recorded two grown-up passings and 739 instances of the ailment, which can stunt the development of the baby's head.

A World Health Organization group touches base in Brazil one week from now.

The service said specialists had discovered Zika infection in the blood and tissue of an infant with miniaturized scale encephalitis in the north-eastern condition of Ceara.

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It said it was likewise the first run through on the planet that grown-up passings from Zika infection had been enrolled.

Most cases have been in the north-east of Brazil however cases additionally quickly showed up in the south-east, in Rio and Sao Paulo.

The initially affirmed instance of death was of a man in the city of Belem, in Para state, who was being dealt with for Lupus, an illness of the invulnerable framework.

The second case, likewise in Para, was of a 16-year-old young lady who was conceded with suspected Dengue fever yet why should found have passed on of Zika.

The infection was initially identified in Brazil in April and has spread quickly to 18 states.

It shows up moderately safe at in the first place, bringing about a rash and a fever for a couple of days.

Be that as it may, service authorities have issued notices to ladies to contemplate getting pregnant right now in zones where there are Zika fever cases.

Zika is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, additionally known not the yellow fever, dengue and chikungunya infections.

The service said Zika had turned into a genuine danger to general wellbeing and that Brazil must set out on a crisis system to control the Aedes aegypti mosquito to keep the infection's spread.