Women that were pregnant during the last 3 months of last year will start giving birth in June according to Dr. Bruce Aylward, WHO's executive director ad interim of the Outbreaks and Emergency Cluster.
He said that evidence is increasing about the link of Zika with Microcephaly a condition where babies are borne with smaller brains than normal and of the Guillain Barré syndrome.
He said that it cannot be discarded that Zika is a factor in those diseases but not the only one.
He added that until the contrary is demonstrated Zika will continue to be blamed.
WHO is holding a meeting on March 7 and 9 as to study the matter and search for diagnoses and vaccines for Zika virus in the same way it was done in the case of Ebola.
Also a team of advisers will be formed in relation to the mosquito Aedes aegypti, who transmits Zika, Dengue fever and
Chikungunya.
WHO will need 56 million dollars to implement the actions necessary to respond to the Zika disease that already has extended to 30 countries.
Zika is now in Africa, Asia and some Pacific islands and in the Western Hemisphere it appeared last May in Brazil where there 4 thousand Microcephaly cases reported.
WHO believes that Zika could infect up to 4 million persons in the region.
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