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A e d e s aegypti m osquito, the ca rrier o f the Zika virus (Centers fo r Disease Control)
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Dilma Rousseff is the president o f Brazil. 
She recorded a message about the Zika 
virus. On 4th February it was broadcast 
on Brazil’s main television channels. Ms 
Rousseff said that the country must ‘de­
clare w ar’ on the mosquitoes that carry 
the virus.
Three days before Ms R ousseff’s 
broadcast, the World Health Organi­
zation (WHO) made an important an­
nouncement. Its leader, Margaret Chan, 
described the spread o f the Zika virus as 
‘an extraordinary event’. She declared 
that the virus, and a disease, or disorder, 
called microcephaly, was now an inter­
national public health emergency.
Virologists, or scientists who study 
viruses, say that Zika has ‘exploded’ over 
the last six months. It has quickly spread 
throughout most o f South America and 
the islands o f the Caribbean. A mosquito 
called 
Aedes aegypti
carries the virus.
Health experts now suspect that the Zika 
virus and microcephaly are connected. No 
one is sure if this is true, but it seems likely.
People most at risk from the Zika vi­
rus are expectant mothers. Microcephaly 
is a birth defect. If a woman gets the vi­
rus while pregnant, her child may have 
the disorder. New-born babies with m i­
crocephaly have small heads and less 
developed brains. Some babies with the 
disorder die at a young age. Others grow 
up with smaller heads, but seem to be 
unaffected. However, as they get older, 
many suffer from learning troubles, 
speech difficulties and health problems. 
There is no cure for microcephaly.
The Zika virus was first discovered in 
Africa nearly 70 years ago. Then, it was 
found in monkeys. These monkeys lived 
in Uganda’s Zika Forest. In 1954 a person 
in Nigeria got the virus. This was the first 
time that it had been found in a human.