Zika virus and the risk of imported infection in returned travelers: Implications for clinical care

Goorhuis, Abraham; Eije, Karin J. von; Douma, Renée A.; Rijnberg, N; Vugt, Michèle van; Stijnis, Cornelis; Grobusch, Martin P.

doi:10.1016/j.tmaid.2016.01.008

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“…Use of GIS-based epidemiological maps allow to integrate preventive and control strategies, as well as public health policies, for joint control of this vector-borne disease in this and other areas of the country [4][5][6][7][8][9][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24]. As other arboviruses are co-circulating (dengue, CHIKV and ZIKV), maps of them as well for co-infections will be also needed [16,17].…”

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“…Also, entomological surveillance, in airports, such the Cali's one located in Palmira, should be enhanced, given the associated risks for imported case, even to other countries, but also importation of infected and non-infected mosquito vectors. Finally, maps provide relevant information in order to assess the risk of travelers to specific destinations in highly transmission areas allowing detailed prevention advices [13,[22][23][24]. These interventions would be even on real time and cost-effective for early control activities [27].…”

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Mapping Zika virus disease incidence in Valle del Cauca

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used was Kosmo Desktop 3.0RC1 ® . Three thematic incidence rate maps were developed. Results Up to April 2, 2016, 9,825 cases of ZIKV were reported (15.15 % of the country cases). The burden of ZIKV infection has been concentrated in the North of the department. Valle del Cauca borders with other departments with incidence of ZIKV infection, such as Quindío (173 cases) and Risaralda (687 cases). Eleven municipalities of Valle del Cauca had cases in the range between 250 and 499 cases/100,000, all in the North and East of the department. Cali, the capital concentrates more than a third of the reported cases of ZIKV in Valle del Cauca. Conclusions Use of GIS-based epidemiological maps allows to guide decision-making for prevention and control of diseases that constitute significant public health problems in the region and the country, such as exemplified by the emergence of ZIKV infection, particularly in departments such as Valle del Cauca with a high disease incidence.

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“…In an epidemiological update from 2 June 2016 the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) identified 39 countries and territories in the Region of the Americas have confirmed local, vector-borne transmission of ZIKV since 2015 (41).…”

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Global epidemiology of Zika and Chikungunya virus human infections

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Zika virus was discovered in 1947. The first reported case of Zika fever was in a sentinel rhesus monkey in Uganda in 1947, while the first human cases were reported in Nigeria in 1954. Since the first evidence of human infection, Zika was active in several countries in Africa and Asia, as sporadic cases and serological evidence of Zika human infections have been demonstrated in several reports. The outbreak of Zika in Yap Island in 2007 is considered the first emergency of this infection. Since then Zika has spread worldwide with a large ongoing epidemic in South and Central America. A huge concern nowadays is about the relationship between Zika infection and microcephaly and about the sexual transmission of the virus. The first identified outbreak of Chikungunya human infection, with an incidence estimated at 23%, was reported from July 1952 to March 1953 in the Southern Province of the current Tanzania. Since then Chikungunya circulated mainly in continental Africa with limited outbreaks. The virus started to spread east bound involving most of the areas surroundings the Indian Ocean. In 2004/2005 a large outbreak developed in La Reunion a French territory in the Indian Ocean: from this point Chikungunya spread to India and from there, due a viraemic traveller returning from Kerala, to Italy where in the summer of 2007 the first outbreak with local viral transmission in a temperate climate zone occurred. In the following years Chikungunya moved to the Caribbean and South America. Recently also the USA experienced the spread of this virus and a limited outbreak based again on local spreading occurred in the French Department of Var, in August 2017.

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“…The ongoing pandemic confirms that Zika is predominantly a mild or asymptomatic dengue-like disease but the Guillain-Barré syndrome and other neurologic conditions may represent grave complications of Zika (ECDC 2015;Goorhuis et al 2016;Oster et al 2016).…”

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“…ZIKV has been isolated from semen, confirming evidence that other nonvector means of transmission exist (however, further studies are needed to determine how long the virus can remain alive in semen). Recently ZIKV has been found in the female genital tract and the first case of transmission of ZIKV through sexual contact of female to male has been documented (Davidson et al 2016;Prisant et al 2016), also blood transfusions (problem that requires attention, since 80 % of people with ZIKV are asymptomatic) and perinatal transmission have been documented (ECDC 2015;Goorhuis et al 2016;Musso et al 2015;Oster et al 2016). It is also suspected that the rapid spread of the virus is closely linked to people traveling to places where there are outbreaks and then return to their places of origin bringing virus with them (Ginier 2016;Goorhuis et al 2016).…”

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Sex, Mosquitoes and Epidemics: An Evaluation of Zika Disease Dynamics

Baca-Carrasco¹,

Hernández

2016

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Since the first major outbreak reported on the island Yap in 2007, the Zika virus spread has alerted the scientific community worldwide. Zika is an arbovirus transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes; particularly in Central and South America, the main vector is the same mosquito that transmits dengue and chikungunya, Aedes aegypti. Seeking to understand the dynamics of spread of the Zika, in this paper, three mathematical models are presented, in which vector transmission of the virus, sexual contact transmission and migration are considered. Numerical analysis of these models allows us to have a clear view of the effects of sexual transmission and migration in the spread of the virus, showing that sexual transmission influences the magnitude of the outbreaks and migration generates outbreaks over time, each of lower intensity than the previous.

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Zika virus and the risk of imported infection in returned travelers: Implications for clinical care

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Mapping Zika virus disease incidence in Valle del Cauca

Mapping Zika virus disease incidence in Valle del Cauca

Global epidemiology of Zika and Chikungunya virus human infections

Sex, Mosquitoes and Epidemics: An Evaluation of Zika Disease Dynamics

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