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Tag: zika

Factsheet: FACTSHEET: Do African countries have to worry about a zika resurgence?

The zika virus is sweeping across South America, but it is an Asian mutation, different from the strains endemic in African countries. Does it mean African populations could be reinfected?

08:33 | 10 March 2016 (GMT)

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Did African travellers introduce the zika virus to Brazil? It’s highly unlikely

A sign post leading to the Zika forest in Uganda near Entebbe, photographed in January 2016. Photo: AFP/ISAAC KASAMANI

Africans are being blamed by doctors for bringing the mosquito-borne zika virus to South America, where an increase has been recorded in babies being born with an underdeveloped brain. Is that plausible?

11:37 | 17 February 2016 (GMT)

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Canadian website wrongly links whooping cough vaccine to zika

An Aedes aegypti mosquito sitting on human skin in a lab of the International Training and Medical Research Training Center (CIDEIM) in Cali, Colombia. Photo: AFP/LUIS ROBAYO

Is a vaccine against whooping cough the “most likely triggering cause” of microcephaly in Brazilian babies? US fact-checking site Politifact couldn’t find a shred of evidence to support this claim.

02:25 | 16 February 2016 (GMT)

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