How does the ZIKA infection is higher among black women?

Allana Maria Garcia Sampaio,José Damásio Soares Costa Filho,Lenina Alves Teixeira,Maria Ivanir Araújo Neves Torres,Modesto Leite Rolim Neto,Ysla Sara Teixeira Silva,Álvaro Costa Marques

doi:10.3823/2597

Allana Maria Garcia Sampaio, José Damásio Soares Costa Filho + Show 5 more

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Introduction: ZIKA is a single-stranded RNA, from the Flaviviridae family. The infection of this virus became extremely visible during its epidemic in 2015 at South America, after the outbreak many speculations that includes newborns with central nervous system malformations and neurological disorders. Objective: determine the epidemiological profile of the Brazilian female population afflicted with Zika virus, by means of database research of 2017. Results: the higher incidence shows the social inequality of those affected by arboviruses: young, poor, black and brown women, the majority of population in the Northeast and North of Brazil. Conclusion: Brazilian epidemiology of Zika virus and Congenital Zika Virus is concentrated in the black and poor female population due to the historical and cultural Brazilian history of colonization, as it is concentrated in the same region where the Aedes mosquito has an easy procreation due to a wet and hot summer leading to propagation of arboviruses.

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ZIKV is a single-stranded RNA, from the Flaviviridae family
ZIKV was first isolated in Uganda back in 1947, and sporadic cases were before seen Southeast Asia and South America [2]
The Brazilian northeast region had the largest concentration of Zika cases in 2015 and serious complications happened concomitant with its outbreak

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ZIKV is a single-stranded RNA, from the Flaviviridae family. The infection of this virus became extremely visible during its epidemic in 2015 at South America, after the outbreak many speculations that includes newborns with central nervous system malformations and neurological disorders.Contact information: Modesto Leite Rolim Neto (M.L., Rolim Neto).Address: 284, Divino Salvador Street, Downtown, Barbalha, Ceara, 63180-000, Brazil.Tel: +055(88)999042979. ZIKV was first isolated in Uganda back in 1947, and sporadic cases were before seen Southeast Asia and South America [2].

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