The WHO on Monday declared an international public health emergency due to Zika’s link to thousands of recent birth defects in Brazil.
“We’ve now set up a global response unit which brings together all people across WHO, in headquarters, in the regions, to deal with a formal response using all the lessons we’ve learned from the Ebola crisis,” Reuters quoted Anthony Costello, WHO director for maternal, child and adolescent health, as saying on the issue.
“And we know that the mosquitos that carry Zika virus – if that association is confirmed – are present through Africa, parts of southern Europe and many parts of Asia, particularly South Asia.”
Costello added the WHO was drafting “good guidelines” for pregnant women and mustering experts to work on a definition of microcephaly including a standardised measurement of baby heads.
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