According to the recent news of American Academy of Neurology, a small-scale study report from Brazil Recife Rehabilitation Hospital said that in addition to microcephaly, the Zika virus may also with another type of brain myelin lesions caused by autoimmune For encephalopathy type, similar to multiple sclerosis. The researchers will report this finding found that at the 68th annual meeting of the Society in Vancouver, Canada from Jan. 15th to 21th.
The authors, Brazil Recife Rehabilitation Hospital Feirui La Maria said, "Although this is a small-scale study, we can provide evidence to prove the impact of the virus on the brain is different from the previous situation. Of course, further research is needed, in order to explore whether there is a causal link between the Zika virus, and some brain problems."
The researchers tracked Recife from December 2014 to June 2015 to the hospital, and exhibit the same family have Zika virus in symptomatic patients, and in December 2014 to December 2015 period observed 151 neurological symptoms of patients, and they have a fever accompanied by rash, there are some severe itching, muscle and joint pain, red eye. They were infected with the Zika virus, Dengue fever, Chikungunya fever virus tested negative. After examination of which 6 people neurological symptoms consistent with autoimmune disorders, some time, some symptoms, some 15 days after the onset of symptoms.
In these six people, two of them developed acute dissemination encephalomyelitis (ADEM), which is a sudden swelling of the brain and spinal cord lesions lead to one kind due to the myelin sheath. The scan showed signs of white matter damage. Four people develop Guillain - Barre syndrome (GBS), which is a peripheral nervous system and myelin-related disorders, and previous reports showed that the disease is related with Zika virus. When they are discharged, five of them still showed motor function problems; one had vision problems; one had memory and thinking problems.
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