Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
Saturday March 19, 2016
The mother of the infant tested negative for the virus test but doctors say that may have infected without symptoms
The Ministry of Health (MoH) confirmed the first death associated with the Zika virus. This is a baby who died four hours after birth, with microcephaly problems and encephalocele (a defect in the brain).
Although the mother of the newborn was negative in the test Zika virus, the creature was positive.
Both the MoH and the Gorgas Memorial Institute for granted was that contagion from mother to fetus during pregnancy.
Itza Barahona de Mosca, director general of Health MoH, said the malformation of the fetus had been detected after birth control and from that moment began to attend to the mother in clinical high-risk pregnancy hospital St Thomas.
Upon the death of the creature Thursday, the protocols established by the alert Zika followed and samples were taken to the mother and newborn. The sample taken from the umbilical cord was positive.
'This is not common; is a new disease that we know, "said Barahona de Mosca.
It is likely that the mother had the disease before and subsequently gave negative.
The retrospective research that has been done so far has determined that the mother had a normal pregnancy; also it has no indigenous family relationship or been in places affected by the virus.
The mother must begin pregnancy in August 2015, which indicates that the virus began to circulate in the metropolitan area long before the first case was detected in the region Guna Yala last November, Barahona said.
Since then and until this week, there have been 134 cases, including two pregnant women and a third that gave birth, but the child had no complications. see graphic
The mother of the infant tested negative for the virus test but doctors say that may have infected without symptoms
The Ministry of Health (MoH) confirmed the first death associated with the Zika virus. This is a baby who died four hours after birth, with microcephaly problems and encephalocele (a defect in the brain).
Although the mother of the newborn was negative in the test Zika virus, the creature was positive.
Both the MoH and the Gorgas Memorial Institute for granted was that contagion from mother to fetus during pregnancy.
Itza Barahona de Mosca, director general of Health MoH, said the malformation of the fetus had been detected after birth control and from that moment began to attend to the mother in clinical high-risk pregnancy hospital St Thomas.
Upon the death of the creature Thursday, the protocols established by the alert Zika followed and samples were taken to the mother and newborn. The sample taken from the umbilical cord was positive.
'This is not common; is a new disease that we know, "said Barahona de Mosca.
It is likely that the mother had the disease before and subsequently gave negative.
The retrospective research that has been done so far has determined that the mother had a normal pregnancy; also it has no indigenous family relationship or been in places affected by the virus.
The mother must begin pregnancy in August 2015, which indicates that the virus began to circulate in the metropolitan area long before the first case was detected in the region Guna Yala last November, Barahona said.
Since then and until this week, there have been 134 cases, including two pregnant women and a third that gave birth, but the child had no complications. see graphic
