MORE THAN 22,600 INFECTED ZIKA VIRUS IN COLOMBIA

More than 22,600 people infected with the virus zika, of which 2,280 pregnant women, authorities said in Colombia.

- A total of 25,645 people were registered with the virus zika across the country, including at the 22,612 confirmed infections and in 3033 is still doing the analysis - prompted the Colombian health services.
Colombian authorities said on Friday they registered three deaths linked to the virus zika.
- We can confirm three deaths linked to the virus zika. In these patients has been detected, and neurological disease, Guillain-Barré syndrome - said the director of the Colombian Institute for Health Martha Lucia Ospina.
Experts have previously suspected that the virus can cause nology-Barre syndrome, an autoimmune disease of the peripheral nervous system.
Colombia, in addition to Brazil, a country that is in the world most affected by the epidemic virus zika suspected that in babies can cause microcephaly, damage to the skull and brain growth, reports Free Europe.

• 7 Feb, 2016
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