Zika: Does Latin American crisis echo ebola outbreak?

The dust has yet to settle on a report warning that the international community is ill-prepared to face another infectious disease outbreak and suddenly we are staring down the barrel of a Zika pandemic.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said it is “deeply concerned” by the situation in Latin America, which director-general Dr Margaret Chan described as “explosive.”

Latest figures estimate that as many as four million people could be affected by the mosquito-borne virus which has been linked to thousands of birth defects and cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, a poorly understood condition in which the immune system attacks the nervous system, sometimes resulting in paralysis.