{"id":6795,"date":"2016-02-16T16:54:18","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T16:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=6795"},"modified":"2016-02-16T16:54:18","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T16:54:18","slug":"zika-virus-no-brasil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/zika-virus-no-brasil\/","title":{"rendered":"Zika v\u00edrus no Brasil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How much do you know about the Zika virus? News about the virus is everywhere and knowing more about it can help preventing getting <em>infectado<\/em> (infected).<\/p>\n<p>What is the Zika virus? It is an <em>infec\u00e7\u00e3o<\/em> (infection) caused by the virus ZIKV, transmitted by the mosquito <em>Aedes aegypti<\/em>. The mosquito also transmits dengue fever as well as chikungunya fever. The Zika virus was first identified in 1947 in monkeys in Uganda and only in 1954 were there cases of humans being infected in Nigeria. The virus reached Oceania in 2007, France in 2013 and the first documented cases is Brazil were in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Once bit by the mosquito, it can take from 3 to 12 days for the person to start having <em>sintomas<\/em> (symptoms).<\/p>\n<p>The mosquitos <em>bota ovos<\/em> (lay eggs) on <em>\u00e1gua parada<\/em> (stagnant water), in <em>clima quente e h\u00famido<\/em> (hot humid weather). This is why the most affected areas in Brazil are up north, especially in <em>estados<\/em> Rio Grande do Norte and Bahia. The reason why it is so <em>dif\u00edcil<\/em> (hard) to <em>se livrar do mosquito<\/em> (get rid of the mosquito) is that the eggs can <em>sobreviver<\/em> (survive) up to a year in dry and cold conditions until the temperature and humidity are ideal.<\/p>\n<p>How to <em>reconhecer<\/em> (recognise) the mosquito <em>Aedes aegypti<\/em>: it is <em>preto ou marrom com listras brancas<\/em> (black or brown with white strips) on its legs and bodies. They usually bite at <em>amanhecer ou entardecer<\/em> (dawn or dusk), since they tend to avoid the sun. They also fly low, which means it is more common for them to bite below the knees.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6797\" style=\"width: 506px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone post-item__attachment\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/60569585@N06\/5568919509\/in\/photolist-9u7aKB-LJpmH-8iKcfb-e4U79v-LJpmP-eMet3o-8voVuN-d4YEz9-d4AtbL-bxG24p-746aaJ-o3SGYM-e4U7a8-9u7gVB-Fnkms-9UiBXf-4k9XxA-cVenub-d4YEtf-7aDdQ7-JmmMr-JmmMx-fbQCFS-93T2e4-9DTCXp-8h7aqP-9DTCU2-fxTewX-9DWvEE-9DTCSH-oapKcG-93W66w-9DTCMP-9DWvuY-9DTCR6-d4YEBA-d4YEwu-7FYhqp-7qZkej-8hapcj-8gXkmN-8gU5uZ-4mNPZ2-8h7avx-8hapgf-8h7aja-64AeZu-Gd1hm-4wDUEr-9u7k7V\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6797\" aria-label=\"5568919509 04e17420e4 Z\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6797\" class=\" wp-image-6797\"  alt=\"Photo by Jentavery\" width=\"496\" height=\"328\" \/ src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/02\/5568919509_04e17420e4_z.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/02\/5568919509_04e17420e4_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/02\/5568919509_04e17420e4_z-350x231.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jentavery<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Symptoms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Febre \u2013 Fever<\/li>\n<li>Dor nas juntas \u2013 Joint pain<\/li>\n<li>Dor muscular \u2013 Muscular pain<\/li>\n<li>Dor de cabe\u00e7a \u2013 Headache<\/li>\n<li>Coceira na mordida de mosquitos na pele \u2013 Itchy mosquito bites on skin<\/li>\n<li>Dor abdominal \u2013 Abdominal pain<\/li>\n<li>Diarreia \u2013 Diarrhoea<\/li>\n<li>Constipa\u00e7\u00e3o \u2013 Constipation<\/li>\n<li>Fotofobia ou conjuntivite \u2013 Photophobia and conjunctivitis (also known and pink eye)<\/li>\n<li>Ulcera bucal \u2013 Mouth ulcer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have the symptoms, the doctor will ask you for a <em>exame de sangue<\/em> (blood test) to confirm you have the virus. There is no treatment for it, so the doctors usually prescribe medication to ease the pain. After 5 to 7 days the symptoms should go away and your body should have produced the <em>anticorpos<\/em> (anti-bodies) necessary to fight the <em>doen\u00e7a<\/em> (disease).<\/p>\n<p>There is still no <em>prova cient\u00edfica<\/em> (scientific proof) that the virus causes microcephaly on unborn children whose mother had the disease or Guillain-Barr\u00e9 syndrome (autoimmune disease that causes the immunologic system to attack the nervous system by mistake) even though there have been many reported cases where being infected by the virus coincided with microcephaly and Guillain-Barr\u00e9 syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>The best way of prevention is to get rid of all stagnant water and use mosquito repellent when traveling to areas of high risk, especially at dawn and dusk.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this post will help you with the prevention of Zika and erratication of the Aedes-aegypti mosquito.<\/p>\n<p>Uma boa semana \u00e0 todos!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"350\" height=\"231\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/02\/5568919509_04e17420e4_z-350x231.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"Photo by Jentavery\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/02\/5568919509_04e17420e4_z-350x231.jpg 350w, https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/02\/5568919509_04e17420e4_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p>How much do you know about the Zika virus? News about the virus is everywhere and knowing more about it can help preventing getting infectado (infected). What is the Zika virus? It is an infec\u00e7\u00e3o (infection) caused by the virus ZIKV, transmitted by the mosquito Aedes aegypti. The mosquito also transmits dengue fever as well&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/zika-virus-no-brasil\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":6797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6795","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6795"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6799,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6795\/revisions\/6799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}