Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook’s partnership with a Brazillian NGO to fight the Zika virus

Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook’s partnership with a Brazillian NGO to fight the Zika virus
In a Facebook post, its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that as a community, ‘we can help fight the Zika virus by raising awareness.

As a community, we can help fight the Zika virus by raising awareness. Facebook has partnered with the non-profit…

Mark Zuckerbergon Tuesday, February 2, 2016

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has declared an international emergency over the Zika virus. The mosquito-transmitted Zika virus outbreak in some countries of the Americas, notably Brazil, has been linked to cases of microcephaly, which causes underdeveloped brains in babies. The casual relation between the Zika infection during pregnancy and microcephaly is strongly suspected. Over 1.5 million Brazilians are estimated to have been infected by the virus over the past few months. (Read: Zika fever: 6 symptoms of zika viral disease everyone should know!)

Source: IANS

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