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                                                                Zika virus infection: update on the evidence for a causal link to congenital brain abnormalities and Guillain-Barré syndrome
Update 7 September 2016
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                THELANCETID-D-16-00800 S1473-3099(16)30318-8
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                PLoS Negl Trop Dis 10(3): e0004530 -Published: March 2, 2016
This paper reviews the status of the Zika virus outbreak, including medical countermeasureoptions, with a focus on how the epidemiology, insect vectors, neuropathology, virology and immunology inform options and strategies available for m...edical countermeasure development and deployment.
Please download directly from the website Open Access: http://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article/asset?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pntd.0004530.PDF
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                                                                WHO Fact sheet on Zika virus (Spanish)
Updated: January 2016
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Fact sheet on Zika virus containing recommendations for pregnant women and information for the treatment, prevention and control of the disease. This factsheet is also available in English, Spanish, Portuguese and French!
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Zika digital timeline: please visit the website http://who.int/emergencies/zika-virus/history/en/
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Bulletin of the World Health Organization; http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.16.176677
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                Lancet Glob Health. 2016 Feb 1. pii: S2214-109X(16)00048-6. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(16)00048-6. [Epub ahead of print] Open Acess
                                                            
                         
                     
                                                        
                        
                        
                            
                            
                                                                The World Health Organization has created a Zika app. The app gathers all of WHO's guidance for agencies and individuals involved in the response to Zika Virus Disease and its suspected complications such as microcephaly, and for health care workers such as doctors, nurses and community health worke...rs. Currently supported languages are English, Portuguese and Spanish. Please download directly from the Google Play Store.
Soon available in all the United Nations' official languages! 
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                                                                These papers are posted in the context of the Public Health Emergency of International Concern declared by the Director-General of the World Health Organization 1 February 2016.
The data in these papers are freely available for unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provid...ed that the original work is properly cited as indicated by the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organizations license (CC BY IGO 3.0).
go to the website: http://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/zika_open/en/
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