This document provides interim recommendations for the surveillance of Zika virus infection, microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome, in four different contexts and describes reporting requirements to WHO. Transmission refers to vector-borne trans...mission, unless specified differently. Autochthonous infection is considered to be an infection acquired in-country, i.e. among patients with no history of travel during the incubation period or who have travelled exclusively to non-affected areas during the incubation period. This document does not provide guidance on laboratory investigation or vector surveillance.
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"Our findings provide a quantitative estimate of the risk of microcephaly in fetuses and neonates whose mothers are infected with Zika virus."
Published Online: 15 March 2016, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)00651-6
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Bulletin of the World Health Organization; http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.16.176677
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Abstract: We report 77 cases of occupational exposures for 57 healthcare workers at the Ebola Treatment Center in Conakry, Guinea, during the Ebola virus disease outbreak in 2014-2015. Despite the... high incidence of 3.5 occupational exposures/healthcare worker/year, only 18 percent of workers were at high risk for transmission, and no infections occurred.
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