Description
Select a global health issue affecting the international health community. Briefly describe the global health issue and its impact on the larger public health care systems (i.e., continents, regions, countries, states, and health departments). Discuss how health care delivery systems work collaboratively to address global health concerns and some of the stakeholders that work on these issues.
Resources within your text covering international/global health, and the websites in the topic materials, will assist you in answering this discussion question.
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Running Head: ZIKA – GLOBAL CONCERN
Zika – Global Issue
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ZIKA – GLOBAL CONCERN
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Zika – Global Concern
Zika virus, alternatively referred to as ZIKV, is part of a virus family known as
Flaviviridae. ZIKV is spread by Aedes mosquitoes, which are most active at daytime, such as A.
albopictus and A. aegypti (Malone et al., 2016). ZIKV is a name that is derived from Uganda’s
Zika forest, where the virus was first detected in 1947 (Sikka et al., 2016). ZIKV is associated
with yellow fever, West Nile, Japanese encephalitis, and dengue viruses. Since the 1950s, ZIKV
has commonly occurred within Africa and Asia. From 2000 to 2016, ZIKV spread eastward to
the Americas across the Pacific Ocean and caused the 2015 to 2016 Zika virus epidemic. ZIKV
has mild or no symptoms. There is no particular treatment of ZIKV; however, paracetamol can
aid in alleviating the symptoms. Since 2016, ZIKV cannot be vetoed by vaccines or medicat...
