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Zika: pregnant women supported 100%

                 Zika: pregnant women supported 100%




In the departments overseas where Zika virus now raging, pregnant women benefit from a supported 100% by Social Security doubled for personal monitoring. Spotlight.



A malformation in infants



No need for mutual health Zika virus! Minister of Social Affairs and Health,Marisol Touraine has indeed indicated that pregnant women concerned would be subject to a comprehensive care for the different treatment required.


In practice, to follow closely the pregnancy of women affected by the virus,an ultrasound should be performed every month .
Recall that Zika virus can lead to a cranial malformation in infants. And, if no cases have been detected in France and departments overseas, there are thousands of cases of infants affected by this serious birth defect that were registered in South America.




Wearing a condom recommended


While the World Health Organization ( WHO ) now considers the Zika virus as a "public health emergency of global reach" a sexual transmission appears to be seriously considered.

In February, US health officials had revealed investigating a dozen cases of possible transmission of the virus through sex Zika . February 27, Marisol Touraine raised the case of a non-French speaker contaminated by his companion returned from Brazil. With signs "very classic of the disease," she has not been hospitalized.

In the US, it is now recommended for people who come back from one of the countries hit by the Zika virus, or to use condoms or to exercise of abstinence .
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