{"id":2500,"date":"2019-05-21T08:34:36","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T08:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:18","slug":"scientist-find-deadly-zika-virus-in-west-pokot-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/05\/21\/scientist-find-deadly-zika-virus-in-west-pokot-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientist Find Deadly Zika Virus in West Pokot County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Story by The Standard Media<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The nbsp; deadly Zika virus, which almost marred the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil, has been detected in Kenya for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between 2016 and 2017, some 215,319&nbsp;Zika&nbsp;infections were reported in Brazil with 2,347 infants born with head deformities in a condition known as microcephaly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday, local researchers said they have detected 33&nbsp;Zika&nbsp; incidents in&nbsp;West&nbsp;&nbsp;Pokot&nbsp;&nbsp;County&nbsp; and one in Turkana&nbsp;County, the first ever recorded in Kenya.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The team from the Ministry of Health, the Nairobi-based International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (Icipe), Kenya Medical Research Institute (Kemri) and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology want measures put in place to prevent a possible outbreak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The researchers in the study published in Virology Journal on Friday on May 17, 2019, said they had found evidence&nbsp;Zika&nbsp;&nbsp;virus&nbsp; has been circulating undetected in human populations in&nbsp;West&nbsp;&nbsp;Pokot&nbsp; and Turkana&nbsp;counties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standardmedia.co.ke\/ktnnews\/video\/2000171622\/scientist-find-deadly-zika-virus-in-west-pokot-county-press-review\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story by The Standard Media The nbsp; deadly Zika virus, which almost marred the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil, has been detected in Kenya for the first time. Between 2016&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}