VM UPM-LC 2017 (TEAM 5) - Zika Virus by Umi Maisyarah https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus Please share and post all your findings in this Padlet, also feel free to make comments and suggestions. Thank you! en-us 2017-03-27 14:15:45 UTC 2025-04-14 17:06:02 UTC hello@padlet.com click ! farhanna_abd_ghani_97 https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/163015436 2017-03-28 06:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/163015436 farhanna_abd_ghani_97 https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/163015630 hey guys, here's an article I found regarding zika virus ]]> 2017-03-28 06:23:47 UTC https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/163015630 Transmission of Zika Virus umimaisyarah2 https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/163017463 Here's is an article on How is the Zika Virus spread!]]> 2017-03-28 06:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/163017463 jasminetzx https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/163193115 This is one of the diseases caused by Zika virus. Normally, even without being infected by Zika virus, there is a chance of this birth defect happening to a child, but if the baby's mother is infected with the Zika virus, the baby may develop a more severe microcephaly than just a general microcephaly. Microcephaly is basically the condition where the baby's head is much smaller than expected when compared to other babies of the same sex and age.]]> 2017-03-28 16:42:02 UTC https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/163193115 Diseases caused by ZIKV jasminetzx https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/163198199 2017-03-28 16:56:29 UTC https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/163198199 Microcephaly jasminetzx https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/163198735 Here is the link to a very interesting story of various people with microcephaly. It is about how they survived until they are now today and the hardships and difficulties that they had been through: https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-04/microcephaly-after-diagnosis-a-life-of-uncertainty]]> 2017-03-28 16:58:11 UTC https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/163198735 Guillian-Barre Syndrome jasminetzx https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/163199681 2017-03-28 17:00:54 UTC https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/163199681 Traces of Zika Found in Asian tiger mosquito in Brazil radzrazer8 https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/166496323 In a recent test of Asian tiger mosquitoes collected in Brazil, researchers found fragments of Zika virus RNA, raising concerns that it may be carried by species other than Zika's known primary vector, the yellow fever mosquito. The research does not conclude that the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) can transmit Zika to humans, but it highlights the need for deeper research into additional potential vectors for the virus.]]> 2017-04-17 02:34:32 UTC https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/166496323 NIH begins testing investigational Zika vaccine in humans radzrazer8 https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/166496403 he National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, has launched a clinical trial of a vaccine candidate intended to prevent Zika virus infection. The early-stage study will evaluate the experimental vaccine’s safety and ability to generate an immune system response in participants. At least 80 healthy volunteers ages 18-35 years at three study sites in the United States, including the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, are expected to participate in the trial. Scientists at NIAID’s Vaccine Research Center (VRC) developed the investigational vaccine — called the NIAID Zika virus investigational DNA vaccine — earlier this year.]]> 2017-04-17 02:36:26 UTC https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/166496403 Mobilizing Research on Detection, Transmission, Newborn Health, and Public Communications radzrazer8 https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/166496460 Leveraging our longstanding commitment to the region and our mission of improving the human condition, we are self-funding a number of projects in Latin America. Vector control, which attempts to limit or eradicate insects that transmit diseases, is a critical prevention strategy for Zika. In Guatemala, we are funding studies to conduct unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) surveillance for Aedes aegypti breeding sites, creating risk communication materials, and performing adult cohort followup and biorepository.

We are also evaluating the costs of ZIKV prevention and control, conducting followup of infants with microcephaly birth defects in in Brazil, and examining potential aerosol transmission of the virus.

Among externally funded projects, we are providing assistance with study design, data collection suppprt, and statistical analyses for an add-on to the REDS III project through the NIH. The objective is to give transfusion medicine experts and government officials more information to evaluate the need for blood screening implementation.

]]> 2017-04-17 02:37:34 UTC https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/166496460 Health officials increase prevention efforts to address serious threats of Zika virus dineshwaran1997 https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/166557580 With most of the women in the study acquiring Zika infection during travel to an area where Zika was present, all jurisdictions within the United States must remain on alert and prepared due to travel-related cases and sexual transmission. Also, with warmer weather and mosquito season approaching, CDC's new Vital Signs report highlights the need for ongoing vigilance and sustained measures to prevent and manage cases of Zika, diagnose patients, increase lab capacity and vector control, and coordinate Zika-related birth defects surveillance activities, especially in parts of the United States where local transmission through the bite from the specific mosquito capable of carrying the Zika virus is possible.]]> 2017-04-17 14:40:59 UTC https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/166557580 ZIKA VIRUS dineshwaran1997 https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/166558917 2017-04-17 14:45:59 UTC https://padlet.com/umimaisyarah2/UPM_LC_Team5_ZikaVirus/wish/166558917