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posted by on Monday December 12 2016, @07:44AM   Printer-friendly
from the reporting-slipped-our-minds dept.

Science magazine reports:

A far higher number of babies in Colombia have developed microcephaly related to Zika virus infections than previously reported. [...] It now appears that incomplete reporting may explain some of the disparity.

[...] the CDC and Colombia's ministry of health and national institute of health, offers "preliminary information" about 476 cases of microcephaly identified over the last 11 months. In contrast, the latest World Health Organization (WHO) "situation report", with data current to 7 December, said that Colombia had only reported 60 cases

[...] Zika is probably not to blame for all of the 476 cases. The paper reports that 306 of the affected babies were tested for Zika virus infection with the ultrasensitive polymerase chain reaction that detects viral RNA or immune markers. Just under half, 147, had evidence of Zika virus infection.

Full paper: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6549e1.htm

WHO report (pdf) http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/251905/1/zikasitrep8Dec2016-eng.pdf?ua=1


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  • (Score: 2) by Entropy on Monday December 12 2016, @07:11PM

    by Entropy (4228) on Monday December 12 2016, @07:11PM (#440507)

    That has to be changed every year, contain mercury, and given to everyone young/old/etc or the world will positively end? It's not about them, or it actually working--It's about protecting the people too sick to actually take the vaccine so it should be mandatory.

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