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Zika Virus in Brazil

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adminee

From: United States
2/2/2016 11:48 EST

Has anyone seen or heard anything related to the Zika virus outbreak in Brazil? We are going to
write an article about it and would be interested to read any feedback from expats. Please just post
it into this thread if you have anything. Thanks!

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ErickViana
2/2/2016 12:37 EST

Hello.
I live in São Paulo, in São Bernardo do Campo.
In our state, one of the richest in the country.
Here in the state are beginning to worry about the outbreak of Zika.
We have a concern with dengue, but with Zika is a first for our people.
The largest Zika outbreaks have been in our northeastern region, the poorest, with a high concentration of social inequality and so some people sin by the habit of living with stagnant water (breeding of mosquito larvae) and in coastal regions or simply live side drains, because in many areas there is no sanitation.
Also there is a crisis with regard to mothers who have been attacked by the virus during pregnancy, causing an absurd outbreak of microcephaly.
There were some cases out of the northeast, but many of them mothers were infected in the northeast and migrated to other states. What caused some warning first.
It was enough to pharmacies and supermarkets leverage the sale of anti insects and protective gear to protect themselves from mosquitoes.
Another consequence was the decrease in the number of planned pregnancies. Many fertility clinics also had very high customer outages.
Above all, beyond the panic by the exhaustive and repetitive reports by the country's leading TV channels of communication on the subject (and believe me, they are really exhaustive).
Unfortunately, our press is more concerned with further damage the image of an already strained government (we live today a political internal crisis because the left wants to take power again) than actually teach people about preventing the proliferation of Zika.

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