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By Sarah Knapton, Science Editor
5:01PM GMT 25 Jan 2016
Pregnant women will be advised to avoid popular holiday destinations like Florida or Queensland in Australia if the dangerous Zika virus spreads.
Experts from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Oxford University warned that Zika was likely to spread to the same places as dengue virus because both are carried by the same mosquito.
Many southern states in the US now have dengue and there as particularly virulent outbreak in the Florida Keys last May.
Queensland has also had problems with the disease.
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Prof Laura Rodrigues, a fellow of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine...
"Wherever there is dengue, there is mosquito, then it will spread and not just in Americas I think there is a very real chance it will spread in Asia.
?Until November we knew nothing, this has caught us by surprise and we're trying to learn as fast as we can.
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Prof Trudie Lang, Professor of Global Health Research and Head of the Global Health Network, University of Oxford said : ?Here we are again, having just come out of Ebola. We weren't quite expecting it to be so soon. There are so many key research questions. We've got no drugs and we've got no vaccines and ?I do feel a sense of d?j? Vu because we are exactly where we were with Ebola.?
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sci...-Florida-and-Queensland-if-virus-spreads.html
5:01PM GMT 25 Jan 2016
Pregnant women will be advised to avoid popular holiday destinations like Florida or Queensland in Australia if the dangerous Zika virus spreads.
Experts from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Oxford University warned that Zika was likely to spread to the same places as dengue virus because both are carried by the same mosquito.
Many southern states in the US now have dengue and there as particularly virulent outbreak in the Florida Keys last May.
Queensland has also had problems with the disease.
...
Prof Laura Rodrigues, a fellow of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine...
"Wherever there is dengue, there is mosquito, then it will spread and not just in Americas I think there is a very real chance it will spread in Asia.
?Until November we knew nothing, this has caught us by surprise and we're trying to learn as fast as we can.
,,,
Prof Trudie Lang, Professor of Global Health Research and Head of the Global Health Network, University of Oxford said : ?Here we are again, having just come out of Ebola. We weren't quite expecting it to be so soon. There are so many key research questions. We've got no drugs and we've got no vaccines and ?I do feel a sense of d?j? Vu because we are exactly where we were with Ebola.?
...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sci...-Florida-and-Queensland-if-virus-spreads.html