Is the Zika virus entering into United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on automotive TYRES?

A high insect professional has warned that the {aedes aegypti|yellow-fever two-winged insects|Aedes aegypti|mosquito} - the Zika virus carrying mosquito - square measure ALREADY in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Howard Carter, one among the UK’s leading bite protection specialists, has claimed the two-winged insects has been clear-sighted on the Kent Coast and in West Sussex.

He believes the insects - to blame for sending the virus - might have entered the country within the grooves of automotive tyres wherever the feminine mosquitoes lay their eggs.

Mr Carter conjointly suggests that they even have the potential to arrive in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in stagnant water in instrumentality ships carrying occasional.

He said: "They square measure here already and that i have seen them myself north of Chichester in West Sussex.

"I am responsive to sightings on the Kent coast that are according to Maine thus it's not a matter of if or once - they're here."

While he believes they're here, he doesn’t assume the mosquitoes square measure in nice numbers - nonetheless. however added: “But in my read it's solely a matter of your time before that becomes the case."

"It could also be a year or it's going to be ten however it'll be here due to heating making a hotter and additional enticing climate."

The Zika virus is presently inflicting widespread panic across south and central America.

Typically symptoms embrace inferior fever, joint pain, a rash, rubor, headache, muscle and eye pain - however solely twenty per cent of individuals show symptoms once infected.

There is no antiviral treatments for the virus and other people square measure suggested to rest, drink many fluids and take pain medication.

More worryingly, Zika has been coupled to the defect abnormal condition, inflicting babies to turn with ill-shapen heads.

The United States of America Center for illness management has even suggested pregnant girls to not visit affected areas, whereas Central American nation square measure encouraging girls within the country to not fall pregnant till 2018.

Three Britons and one Danish traveler have caught it when travel to Central and South America.