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Life | Thu Feb 18, 2016 4:13pm EST Related: HEALTH, BRAZIL
Experts question assumption that Zika sickens just 1 out of 5
RIO DE JANEIRO | BY PAULO PRADA
Since the beginning of the Zika outbreak in Brazil that is now spreading rapidly in the Americas, public health authorities have cited a statistic that only about one in five people infected by the virus develops any symptoms.
Experts, however, are now questioning whether this standard assumption understates the actual percentage who become ill, saying the finding was made nearly a decade ago in a vastly different setting: a sparsely populated island in Micronesia.
"We have to question that number," said virologist Mauricio Lacerda Nogueira of the S?o Jose de Rio Preto medical school in the Brazilian state of S?o Paulo. "The reality of an outbreak on a small island is completely different from that in a big country with many different types of people, climates and other conditions."
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-zika-symptoms-idUSKCN0VR2GD
Experts question assumption that Zika sickens just 1 out of 5
RIO DE JANEIRO | BY PAULO PRADA
Since the beginning of the Zika outbreak in Brazil that is now spreading rapidly in the Americas, public health authorities have cited a statistic that only about one in five people infected by the virus develops any symptoms.
Experts, however, are now questioning whether this standard assumption understates the actual percentage who become ill, saying the finding was made nearly a decade ago in a vastly different setting: a sparsely populated island in Micronesia.
"We have to question that number," said virologist Mauricio Lacerda Nogueira of the S?o Jose de Rio Preto medical school in the Brazilian state of S?o Paulo. "The reality of an outbreak on a small island is completely different from that in a big country with many different types of people, climates and other conditions."
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-zika-symptoms-idUSKCN0VR2GD