RESEARCHERS THINK THEY HAVE FOUND THE ZIKA VIRUS PATIENT ZERO

Researchers have narrowed their search to one carrier.

Zika is not the worst thing you could catch as an adult. Zika sufferers have a fever, a rash, maybe red eyes, some pain. It is only a pain in the ass, deadly bird flu, not some kind killer. But if a pregnant woman catches Zika, it is an entirely diverse ball game - Zika Fever Symptoms.

In South America newborn children of Zika-infected moms have suffered a variety of sometimes horrifying birth defects, including microcephaly—extremely diminished skull size and brain capacity. So normally scientists have been hard at work attempting to unravel how Zika made into the Americas in the first place - Zika Fever Treatment.

Turns out it was one lone Zika-infected idiot who traveled to Brazil in 2013, probably from a Pacific Island nation, who may have begun it all. That is one of the findings from researchers who published the expressively titled "Zika virus in the Americas: Early epidemiological and genetic discoveries" in Science this week. New York Magazine helped break down the Thick scientific narrative:

This study, dissimilar to the others that study just people's travel patterns, concentrates on the virus itself. Researchers were able to locate similarities among 23 viral genomes from Thailand, Colombia, Haiti, French Polynesia, Martinique, Suriname, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Guatemala, and the Americas. Then, by creating a "molecular clock" that tracks the pace of mutations in blood samples from the past 3 years, they could work their way back to establish a date for its arrival.

Some have already censured the study, certainly questioning its accuracy by recommending it utilized far too small a sample to derive its outcomes - Zika Virus Symptoms. But, as New York noted, there are likewise statistics that back up the idea Zika was finally imported into the "New World" in 2013—such as the 50% jump in travelers heading to Brazil from French Polynesia at the time.

However Zika(Zika Fever) got here, it looks like it is not going anyplace, and since it is spring in the northern hemisphere, it looks like the still random number of cases of the virus found in the US are probable to rise.


Originally Published on Maxim