About Zika: the race against time to contain the virus that shrinks babies' brains
Headlines about the Zika disease able to destroy the babies’ brains in the womb have shocked the world. Beyond the fear and awe-inspiring pandemic disease this film reveals the origins of this seemingly harmless disease secretly spread across half the world undetected for decades until it exploded in a deadly epidemic. Could it mutate and affect adults with more severe effects and could it cause delayed damages to children’s health for those born with the disease? The Medical world is engaged in a race against time to try and answer these questions. ------- Chapters ▷ 00:00 - Introduction ▷ 01:12 - The discovery of a strange epidemy in Brasil: Zika ▷ 05:00 - A disease that destroys the brains of fetuses in utero ▷ 10:00 - Mosquito analysis to understand pathogen contagion ▷ 13:00 - The rubber, a material that allowed the virus to develop ▷ 20:39 - Trackdown Zika, a race against time to prevent a deadliest epidemic ▷ 30:00 - Scietists found how Zika causes ▷ 36:00 - The propagation of Zika: fear of an epidemy in Africa
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- Title
- Zika: the race against time to contain the virus that shrinks babies' brains
- Category
- Health & Medicine
- Runtime
- 52 minutes
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- wocomoDOCS
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