{"id":1925,"date":"2018-09-20T13:59:37","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T13:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=1925"},"modified":"2018-09-20T13:59:37","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T13:59:37","slug":"world-must-prepare-for-return-of-zika-scientists-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2018\/09\/20\/world-must-prepare-for-return-of-zika-scientists-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"World must prepare for return of Zika, scientists warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"m_first-letter m_first-letter--flagged\">H<\/span>ot weather and drought could spark the return of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/0\/what-is-zika-where-did-the-virus-come-from-and-what-happens-if-i\/\">Zika virus<\/a>,\u00a0scientists have warned.<\/p>\n<p>The disease, transmitted by mosquitoes, spread throughout Brazil and Latin America in 2015 and 2016 where it was linked to a spate of neurological defects among\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/0\/risk-miscarriage-mothers-infected-zika-higher-previously-thought\/\">babies born to mothers infected with the virus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization declared it a public health emergency of international concern in 2016. There have been no new outbreaks of the disease since January 2017 but it is on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/0\/beware-disease-x-mystery-killer-keeping-scientists-awake-night\/\">WHO&#8217;s watchlist of diseases with the potential to spark a pandemic.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rapid spread of the disease is thought to be linked to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(16)00256-7\/fulltext?code=lancet-site\" rel=\"nofollow\">El Ni\u00f1o<\/a>climate cycle, which caused high temperatures and\u00a0severe drought over parts of South America in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClimatic factors have kept mosquitoes below the level required to trigger an outbreak for the last couple of years,\u201d Eduardo Massad, professor of medical informatics at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo, told the\u00a0<em>Telegraph<\/em>. \u201cAs soon as this modifies there is a high risk of an outbreak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Prof Massad uses mathematical modelling to predict disease transmission and has found that there is currently a 43 per cent chance of an outbreak in Rio de Janeiro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot weather and drought could spark the return of the\u00a0Zika virus,\u00a0scientists have warned. The disease, transmitted by mosquitoes, spread throughout Brazil and Latin America in 2015 and 2016 where it was linked to a spate of neurological defects among\u00a0babies born to mothers infected with the virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}