Zika has ‘explosive pandemic potential’: Scientists urge World Health Organisation to act amid claims virus could infect 4 MILLION
Called on WHO to convene an emergency committee of disease experts
Scientists warn a Zika virus vaccine could take a decade to create
Virus can make a baby’s head smaller and restrict brain development
Criticised WHOs response to Ebola saying it ‘cost thousands of lives’
By KATE PICKLES
DailyMail.com
28 January 2016
Scientists today warned the Zika virus has ‘explosive pandemic potential’.
The World Health Organisation the mosquito-borne disease had gone from a mild threat to one of alarming proportions and admitted up to four million people could be infected.
The agency will convene an emergency committee of disease experts on Monday.
It comes after US experts claimed WHO was not taking a leadership role in the Zika pandemic.
They said the organisation needed to learn lessons from its handling of the Ebola epidemic where the ‘agency’s failure to act decisively cost thousands of lives’.
The WHO says it has set up measures to fight the spread including surveillance, laboratories for testing, clinical care and vector control – killing off the mosquitoes spreading the infection.
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