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areas, you should take care not to make yourself bitten
by a mosquito. And after traveling, especially when you

are pregnant, you should check if you have any fever,
rash, arthralgia or hyperemia for two weeks. And if there
is, you must visit a hospital, informing specifi cally about
your trip. But luckily, if you are not pregnant, it is mostly
not that serious since 80% of infected people show no
symptoms. Therefore when infected, just having rest with
drinking a lot of water can help us to recover. Plus, after recovery, we should not donate our blood for
one month minimum.
It is now known that the official vaccine for Zika virus is not invented yet. However with a lot of

researches going on, on June 28th 2016, the team of professors in Harvard Medical School announced to
a science magazine, Nature, that they found two different vaccines and checked its effi cacy through tests
on mice.

Photo References :
http://zika.modoo.at/?link=9ccyoun5
http://newhairstylesformen2014.com/zika/zika-virus-babies-with-small-heads.html
http://blog.malaysia-asia.my/2016/02/zika-virus-in-malaysia.html
Son, Jiwoo (1-1)
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