einstein (São Paulo). 01/Apr/2016;14(2):13-8.
Bioethical considerations at times of Zika virus
DOI: 10.1590/S1679-45082016ED3725
Last March, many experts were brought together in Geneva in a meeting organized by the World Health Organization (WHO) to discuss the dramatically increase of Zika virus infection in the Americas.() Among attendees there were virologists, immunologists, neurologists and epidemiologists – all of them concerned on how to stop the rapid progress of Zika virus in Brazil and in other countries in the Americas.
The Zika virus, in the past an agent responsible for occasional disease in humans, is today responsible for outbreaks in Brazil and Latin America of microcephaly, Guillain-Barré syndrome, myelitis and meningoencephalitis cases,(,) in such a degree that WHO declared a public health emergency situation of international concern.
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