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标题：Zika Virus Controversies: Epidemics as a Legacy of Mega Events?
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作者：Alberto Krayyem Arbex ; Vagner Rosa Bizarro ; Mikele Torino Paletti 等
期刊名称：Health
印刷版ISSN：1949-4998
电子版ISSN：1949-5005
出版年度：2016
卷号：08
期号：07
页码：711-722
DOI：10.4236/health.2016.87074
语种：English
出版社：Scientific Research Publishing
摘要：The current knowledge of the Zika Virus epidemic clearly lacks a comprehensive understanding of its determinants and clinical outcomes. Until recently regarded as a “simple” dengue-like infection, it nowadays turned into a real challenge to Public Health around the world. The Zika Epidemic shows a quick spread, affects unprepared health systems, and presents with severe neurological complications of newborns—a concrete threat to pregnancies. This re-emerging infectious disease is a source of deep doubts and harsh debates regarding Public Health and even bioethical issues. Several doubts still remain on how to deal with the various possible transmission ways of the disease, the surge of a generation of thousands of microcephalic newborns (and questions on how to handle them within limited health systems), and severe malformations concentrated so far in Northeastern Brazil. Finally, a debate is raised about how the “Endemic State” of Brazil, deeply merged in a health care crisis for almost 40 years now, currently confronts 3 current epidemics of the arboviruses Dengue, Chikungunya and now Zika, all associated with a lack of basic sanitation. Brazil must deal with these biological threats in the context of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, since Chikungunya has probably been brought to Brazil during the FIFA Soccer World Cup (2014) and Zika Virus spread is associated with the Soccer Confederations Cup (2013).
关键词：Zika Virus;Epidemic;Microcephaly;Bioethics;Public Health;Guillain-BarréSyndrome;Rio 2016;Chikungunya;Dengue;Olympic Games;Legacy;Basic Sanitation