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? asked in Pregnancy & ParentingNewborn & Baby · 5 years ago

Is the Zika virus considered an epidemic?

I need to answer a question considering a new epidemic that s targeting the young. Can I justify Zika as an epidemic (or outbreak) that s effecting a whole new generation of babies born with Microcephaly?

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  • angelicdevil2000
    Lv 5
    5 years ago

    Could be. It has spread to areas not usually associated with infection but it has done so over about a year rather than the short time an epidemic usually takes.

    I'd be careful about drawing conclusions about microcephaly too - so far they've only identified 17 case where the woman was infected with Zika but they can't find a specific link to the birth defect so the warnings are based on the risk that it might be a problem, we just don't know if it actually is.

  • olivia
    5 years ago

    What country are you looking at?

  • Tulip
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    no

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    it is a cancer

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