Zika virus is a virus from flavivirus family. It is carried by the mosquito that usually found in Africa, South America and SE Asia. The human that exposed to this virus usually will develop a fever after 3-12 days of the mosquito bites.

Identification

Zika fever is belongs to other mosquito-borne fever which is dengue-like. The patient will show symptoms like fever, headache, occasionally nausea and vomiting, malaise, myalgia, conjunctivitis and photophobia. Culex and Aedes spp are the type of mosquito that likely to carry this virus and spread it to human.

Who Is In High Risk Of Zika Virus?

People who live in the outbreak area is in the high risk to get infected. Usually the living environment with high level of Breuteu Index, Aedes Index and Container Index is the target area for outbreak control. If the housing area is not properly cleaned, has a lot of mosquito breeding places and the people has low education of Zika virus and how it’s spreading will add the risk more.

Preventive Measures


To avoid the spreading of Zika virus, we have to destroy or eliminate the breeding places of the vector, which is the mosquito. You can do it simply by:

Cleaning your house everyday and make sure it is free from breeding places and steady water.
If you have water container, make sure it is covered well so the mosquito will not allowed breeding in it.
If you have a pond, make sure it has mosquito predator like frog, tadpole or fish in the pond.
Eliminate any garbage, tins, bottles that can contain water around your house or inside your house to avoid mosquito breeding.
All garbage are needed to be disposed safely or you can use an incinerator to manage your garbage or waste.
If your house has the natural breeding places or plants that can contain water such as the pineapple tree, cocoa tree, coconut tree, and bamboo tree, you have to make sure that the water that contained in the tree trunk, the cocoa shell or coconut shell is properly drained or cleaned to eliminate breeding places.
If you are living in the outbreak area, evacuate from that place is not that necessary if you are taking the epidemic measures such as:

read more http://www.healthable.org/zika-virus-symptoms-and-prevention/

No matter what you do as long as you're in nigeria, mosquito must bite you atleast once a week