Women in Brazil have been recommended by the health authorities to currently avoid pregnancy. The recommendation has been given subsequent to detection of damaged brain in several newborns due to a virus called Zika. The virus is found in African forest monkeys in new West Nile and has resulted in alarming danger. The pathogen has same effect as the West Nile virus and was found more than 70 years ago.

The virus transmission in humans mainly occurs through mosquito and results in certain mild symptoms, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The symptoms include fever, headache rash, vomiting, diarrhea, body aches and joint pains. Less than 1% of the people, who are infected by the pathogen, have been detected with neurologic diseases like encephalitis and meningitis, which causes the inflammation of the brain and surrounding tissues.

The alarming threat was raised by the health officials after it was discovered that Zika virus can result in microcephaly, which is contraction in the skull of babies. Over 2,400 suspected cases of microcephaly have been detected in Brazil in 2015. The country witnessed the maximum increase from 147 cases of microcephaly in 2014. “These are newborns who will require special attention their entire lives. It's an emotional stress that just can't be imagined.We're talking about a generation of babies that's going to be affected,” said Angela Rocha, a Pediatric Infectious Diseases Specialist in Pernambuco.