zika virus there's a flavivirus it'san infection that's carried by mosquitoes and it causes an illnessthat's usually very mild it can even be asymptomatic one of the reasons that thevirus is up so much concern lately is not from the infection itself but thelate consequences particularly in pregnant women so this is what hascaused the largest degree of concern congenital abnormalities that have beenlinked to infection of pregnant women with this virus and that was latereffects on the fetus in terms of a vaccine we don't have a vaccine for thisdisease either but there are several candidate vaccines that are in researchstages right now and we're hopeful that
perhaps within a year or so we'll havesome clinical trials on going with vaccines to prevent this disease sojohns hopkins medicine we are well positioned to address many aspects of aninfectious disease threat like this up i rest for instance at the bloombergschool of public health we have many researchers who are doing vaccinedevelopment research on similar diseases like dengue and these efforts could berepurposed to develop vaccines for zika virus infection prevent theinfection from a patient care perspective we also have infrastructurein place to screen our patients for recent travel so i think when facing anyinfectious disease threat like this
virus it's important to remain calm andto arm ourselves with the facts and the centers for disease control andprevention is an excellent resource to get information and to stay abreast ofthe current advisories and recommendations to protect ourselves
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