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The zika virus is much more dangerous than scientists thought

Вирус Зика намного опаснее, чем думали ученыеScientists have found that it causes severe neurological disorders.

The zika virus and its consequences were more dangerous to humans than scientists previously thought. In Brazil, the researchers found that the pathogens not only contribute to the development of microcephaly in newborns, but can cause a number of other neurological disorders.

Brazilian scientists believe that today, many women can be infected with the virus, Zeke and not even know it is a bacteria and its influence on the nervous system for a long time for a person to remain unnoticed. According to Brazilian neuroscientist Renato Sa, such women occurs in every fifth case of virus infection.

The world health organization warned that the spring increases the risk of Contracting the virus sweeping the planet. Possibly, the virus zika may cover extensive territory from the North of Australia to South Asia, all of Central and parts of Western and southern Africa, most of South and North America, including and coast. In areas where it is possible to spread the virus, home to more than two billion people.

Swine flu, bird flu, Ebola, and now the virus of Zeke. Humanity, building huge cities, launching missiles into space and imagine themselves the crown of creation, is powerless to microscopic organisms that capture new territory. In 1947, when a new virus was discovered in Uganda in rhesus monkeys, no one could have imagined that the time will come when this disease will become a threat to humanity.

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