The Ministry Of Health,Nutrition And Indigenous Medicine has requested the public to destroy mosquito breeding places including dengue mosquito breeding places to avoid spreading of "Zika Virus Infection" which spreading in South and Central American Countries these days, in Sri Lanka."Zika Virus Infection" is spreading through two varieties of mosquitoes namely "Eadis Egypty" (Dengue Mosquito) and "Eadis Vittatus"which have already been bred in Sri Lanka .The disease is mainly affecting pregnant mothers and through a mother infected with Zika Virus Infection, The fetus will be infected and as a result the babies are born with brain defects the doctors have said.
This infection is already spreading in Brazil and eight other South and Central American Countries as an epidemic and United States has already advised pregnant mothers to avoid travelling those countries due to this infection.
The only solution to prevent spreading of "Zika Virus Infection" which has similar symptoms as in Dengue and Chikungunya Diseases, in Sri Lanka is to destroy mosquito breeding places and keep the environment free from mosquitoes the local epidemiologist have said.
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