mon 01 feb 2016, 07:40

“More abortions Brazil by zikavirus’

RIO DE JANEIRO –

Expansion of the zikavirus in Brazil that the number of abortions increases. Out of fear for schedelafwijkingen of babies, which the disease is associated, end-infected women to their pregnancy. That writes the newspaper Folha de São Paulo.

The newspaper draws on stories from multiple doctors. That report that the women in the line of a high level of education enjoyed, have enough money and like want to have a child, but desperate to be by the future prospects of their unborn child.

The danger is that babies of infected women skin diseases as a result of the mosquito-borne virus. So come schedelafwijkingen in conjunction with neurological disorders that lead to developmental problems. That condition is called microcephaly. According to doctors, waiting for some women, the prognosis is not once off, but they choose for a private abortion, which, in Brazil, about 15,000 Real costs (converted about 3,500 euro). In Brazil there are already more than 4000 suspected cases of schedelafwijkingen. In six cases, it is definitively established that it is because pregnant women zikavirus had suffered.

The world health organisation (WHO comes Monday in spoedberaad together to determine whether the distribution of the zikavirus applies if a so-called global emergency. The WHO provides three to four million besmettingsgevallen on the continent, especially in Brazil. There is no vaccine against the zikavirus, and according to experts, is that this year there will be no more.