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1:27 CAT | 28 Jan 2016
In file Club of Mozambique.
Portugal has recorded five cases of Zika virus, which is transmitted by mosquitoes and associated with neurological complications and malformation in fetuses.
According to Dr. Ricardo Jorge of the Portuguese National Institute of Health, who made the diagnoses, the five cases detected in Portugal were travellers who contracted the disease in Brazil.
According to the Portuguese General Directorate for Health, “the clinical signs and symptoms of the disease are generally mild: fever, rash, joint pain, conjunctivitis, headaches and muscle pains”.
“Less frequently, sufferers may experience eye pain and gastrointestinal symptoms. There are suspicions, not yet fully proven, that the disease can cause fetal abnormalities during pregnancy, particularly microcephaly.”
Source: Lusa
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