Brazil is a country with a fairly high crime level. But this time, the crime affects not one or a few people, and almost the whole world. According to the newspaper O Globo, scientist, Amilcar Tanuri at the airport in Rio de Janeiro stole a laptop, which contained the results of studies concerning the development of the drug against the virus of Zeke.
“It all happened very quickly. I released the bag with the laptop from his hands to get the phone ringing for. And then I saw that it is no more”, – said the scientist. Witnesses spotted two men who grabbed the bag, got into the car and fled the scene of the crime. To track them down failed in the administration of the airport said that because of problems with electricity, the lighting was partially turned off, and surveillance cameras are unable to record the car number. “The worst of it is that the thieves do not even understand the value of what was stolen,” said Tanori.
According to the head of the laboratory of molecular Virology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the results of drug tests were positive, and dedicated scientific article was ready for publication. Now he will have to repeat the experiment to recover the data. Initially, the research took about three months, but Tenure hopes that this time everything will be done much faster. However, have to re-spend, because the cost alone of the materials required for the study is 5 thousand dollars.
The zika virus was identified in 1947 in Uganda. It causes slight fever, chills, headaches, joint pain and back pain, skin rash, fatigue. Its carrier is the mosquito Aedes aegypti.
The world health organization February 1, 2016, acknowledged the spread of zika virus in the countries of North and South America emergency medical situation on an international scale. The outbreak was registered in Asia, Africa, South America and North America, in the Pacific region.
Zika virus in pregnant women causes various abnormalities of fetal development. The most severe of them is microcephaly – a significant reduction in the size of the skull, leading to dementia, vision problems and hearing. Only in Brazil has already recorded over a thousand cases of microcephaly.
