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The World Health Organization(WHO) has declared the spread of mosquito-born Zica Virus a global public health emergency. On Monday, the global health agency held an emergency meeting in Geneva after warning the public that Zika is spreading "explosively" across the Americas.Dr. Margaret Chan is the director-general of the WHO. She said after the meeting that the cases of microcephaly in regions with Zika cases “constitute an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world.”
Last week, health officials confirmed one case of the virus in Denmark, five in Great Britain, three cases in the United States and 18 in its territory of Puerto Rico.The global health organization also predicts that Zika could infect as many as four million people in the Americas this year.
The symptoms from the virus are minor. The symptoms are flu-like and include a rash. But the results for some infected with Zika -- namely pregnant women -- are destructive.The WHO suspects the virus may be linked to brain disorders3 in babies. Health experts highly suspect there may be a link between the illness and microcephaly. However, a definite link between Zika and microcephaly has not been proven.
World Health Organization spokesman Gregory Hartl has this to say: "So, one of the curiosities is why we have so many neurological cases in say the northeast of Brazil, but we have not had it in other places. So, we really need to understand what is existing that causes these microcephaly cases, for example, in children."
Hartl does not agree with claims that the Zika virus could pose a threat similar to that of Ebola.He says that Ebola is transmitted by contact with bodily fluids from person to person and kills about 50 percent of its victims. "Zika has never killed a person and it is transmitted by the mosquito. So, we know that there are those two fundamental differences at least. Let us say that Zika on its own would not be the consideration of an emergency committee. What is the concern to the international community is the possible link with neurological disorders."
(Note: Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS.)
78. The cases of microcephaly are generally seen in the place_____________
79. Who should pay special attention to the infection of the virus to avoid its terrible result?
80. What puzzles the health experts about the case of microcephaly?
81. What causes the global concern is that the mosquito-born ZiKa Virus may____________
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