Zika Virus

Complications /Information to beware of/General tips:

Do not wait, phone for ambulance if have or develop:

• Guillain-Barre syndrome
• Severe disease affecting the brain, which can cause swelling of the brain or spinal cord or a blood disorder that can result in bleeding, bruising or sluggish blood clotting.

Pregnancy

These measures reduce the chance of sexual transmission of ZIKV and/or the risk of ZIKV infection in pregnancy.

• If you are pregnant, you should postpone non-essential travel to this country.
• If you are planning pregnancy, or there is a possibility you may be pregnant, you should use contraception and condoms during travel and for:
  • 2 months afterwards if you are female
  • 3 months afterwards if you are male
• Sexual partners of pregnant women living in or returning from areas where transmission occurs should practice safer sex or abstain from sex throughout the duration of pregnancy.
• Further information can be found through the UKHSA (formally PHE): Zika virus: sexual transmission advice algorithm.

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If one believes they have got pregnant or is pregnant and has visited  the areas above and show symptoms above, please see your doctor

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Advice for All Travellers

• All travellers should practice strict mosquito bite avoidance at all times.
• Do not travel without adequate travel insurance.
• Seek pre-travel health advice from your health care provider 6-8 weeks in advance of travel.

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General tips

• Wear Permethrin – treated clothes.
• Use insect/tropical repellent spray including N,N-Diethyl- meta-tolumide (DEET), picaridin, oil of lemon eucalyptus/p-menthane 3,8,diol (PMD).
• Use window and door screen nets.
• Use bed nets.

Small and/or undeveloped brains and heads

This condition can lead to small and/or undeveloped brains and heads in babies.

Symptoms include:

• Developmental delays, including problems with speech and other developmental milestones such as sitting, standing, or walking
• Intellectual disability
• Cerebral palsy
• Epilepsy
• Glaucoma
• Hearing loss
• Feeding problems, including difficulty swallowing (dysphagia)
• Impaired growth

This condition may show similar symptom to (small head features):

• Thalassemia
• Kabuki syndrome
• Smith Lemli Opitz syndrome
• Angelman syndrome

Small head

• Agenesis of corpus callosum
• AIDS dysmorphic syndrome
• ATR-16 syndrome
• Bloom syndrome
• Börjeson-Forssman-Lehmann syndrome
• Bowen Hutterite syndrome
• Cerebrocostomandibular syndrome
• CHARGE syndrome
• Cockayne Syndrome
• Coffin-Siris syndrome
• Cohen syndrome
• Cornelia de Lange syndrome
• Cri du chat syndrome
• De Barsy syndrome (eyes, loose saggy skin, weak muscles)
• DiGeorge syndrome
• Donohue syndrome (Leprechaunism)
• Filippi syndrome
• Xeroderma Pigmentosum (De Sanctis-Cacchione syndrome)
• Dubowitz syndrome (narrow or triangle-shaped face with a high or sloping forehead, eczema, vision problems)
• Dyggve-Melchior-Clausen syndrome
• Encephaloceles
• Fanconi anaemia
• Freeman-Sheldon syndrome (whistling face syndrome)
• Hallermann-Streiff syndrome
• Holoprosencephaly
• Hypomelanosis of Ito (develop areas that lack skin colour)
• Johanson-Blizzard syndrome
• Juberg-Marsidi syndrome
• KAT6A syndrome
• KAT6B-related disorders
• KIF1A-related disorder
• Lenz microphthalmia syndrome (small eyes)
• Marden-Walker syndrome
• Meckel-Gruber syndrome
• Megalocornea-intellectual disability syndrome
• Meier-Gorlin syndrome
• Mowat-Wilson syndrome (high forehead)
• Multiple sulfatase deficiency
• Neu-Laxova syndrome
• NGLY1 deficiency
• Oculo-dento-digital dysplasia
• Orocraniodigital syndrome
• Penta X syndrome
• Pitt-Hopkins syndrome
• Rett syndrome (female)
• Ring chromosome 4
• Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS)
• Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome
• Seckel syndrome
• Sjögren-Larsson syndrome
• SHORT syndrome (triangular face, dimple on chin)
• Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome
• Spastic paraplegia 47 (SPG47)
• TANC2-related disorders
• Tetrasomy 9p
• TLK2-related neurodevelopmental disorder
• Treacher Collins syndrome
• Trichorhinophalangeal syndrome type II (Langer-Giedion syndrome)
• Trichothiodystrophy
• Trisomy 13 Syndrome (sloping forehead)
• Trisomy-18 (Edwards syndrome) (prominent back head)
• Turner type X-linked syndromic intellectual developmental disorder
• Warburg Micro syndrome
• Wildervanck syndrome
  • Abnormal union or fusion of two or more bones of the spinal column (vertebrae) within the neck (Klippel-Feil syndrome)
  • Impairment or absence of certain eye (ocular) movements (Duane syndrome)
  • Hearing impairment
• Williams-Beuren syndrome
• Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome

Small head (broad and/or narrow forehead) and flat back skull

• Chromosome 6, Partial Trisomy 6q
• Chromosome 10, distal trisomy 10q and other chromosome deletion disorders
• Filippi syndrome
• Galloway-Mowat syndrome
• Kleefstra syndrome
• Lacrimo-auriculo-dento-digital (LADD) syndrome
• Larsen syndrome (prone to dislocation of elbows , hips and knees)
• Lissencephaly type 1 (Miller-Dieker syndrome and Norman-Roberts syndrome)
• Molybdenum cofactor deficiency (prominent forehead)
• Mosaic trisomy 9 (a sloping forehead with narrow temples)
• Otopalatodigital syndromes type I and II
• X-linked Opitz G/BBB syndrome

This condition may show similar symptoms to:

• Dengue

Please talk to your healthcare professional (i.e. Medical Doctor/Pharmacist) for further advice