Venezuela Confirms the Nation’s First Zika Death

President Nicolas Maduro has confirmed on Thursday of possibly 3 deaths in Venezuela due to the mosquito-borne Zika virus. This is the first confirmed Zika related deaths announced by the South American country. Zika, a mosquito-borne disease, caused by virus transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes have symptoms including fever, skin rashes, headache, muscle and joint pain that lasts for 2 to 7 days. Ever since the virus had come under light, no specific treatment or vaccine was invented to prevent the disease to spread.

Venezuela President Maduro added in his conversation to EXIN Times that the dire virus is increasing the number of sufferers in the North American country and had hit more 68 cases who have been hospitalized with complications confirmed to be related to the virus. Reports say that almost a number of 5000 people are suspected to be affected by the Zika virus. However local health organizations say that the real number of suspected with this disease is likely much higher.

Zika hit South America and Brazil last year at this time as the country saw a sudden and dramatic jump in cases of microcephaly, in which babies are born with unusually small heads. Investigators are also studying a possible link to Guillain—Barre syndrome, which can cause temporary paralysis and is sometimes fatal.