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Data from the weekly report of the Health Emergency Operations Center (COE), the Ministry of Health, point out that the state of Acre is among the federative units with the highest incidence of zica cases in Brazil in the first three weeks of 2025.
Aedes aegypti is the transmitter of chikungunya, dengue, zika and yellow fever – Photo: Freepik
Throughout the country, 168 probable cases of the disease were reported this year, with an incidence coefficient of 0.1 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. While the state of Acre fell into the incidence range of 0.28 to 1.81 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
Overall, the North and Southeast regions presented the largest incidence coefficients. With special prominence, besides Acre, to Espírito Santo and Tocantins.
Zika/ Image Incidence Map: Ministry of Health
Main symptoms of Zika
Zika is an infectious disease caused by the Zikv virus, transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, with symptoms that may appear within 10 days after infection.
Like chikungunya and dengue, some of the symptoms are fever, headache and body, red spots on the skin and joint pain. In some cases and zika, the patient has no signs, on the other hand, two very characteristic symptoms of this arbovirosis are skin rash (spots or red bubbles) and conjunctivitis.
In the case of pregnant women, when infected with the zika virus, they risk the neurological development of the affected baby, and may result in the birth of the child with microcephaly (where the baby’s head and brain are lower than normal for age. ).
