Latin American health officials agreed to have an emergency meeting against the Zika virus outbreak Wednesday, Feb. 3. The meeting was held in Montevideo, Uruguay, participated by 14 health officials including Brazilian Health Minister Marcelo Castro.

According to Yahoo!, the focus of the meeting is for everyone to work full force against the virus and to brainstorm about the ways on how to control the mosquito population. Castro said that now is the time for Latin American officials to "exchange information, make alliances, and discuss what coordinated action we can take to control this epidemic."

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said that her government is willing to do everything and offer "all resources" available to help fight the outbreak. She also vowed to the families of those infected babies that the Brazilian government will help them in every way they can.

"My entire government is working on fighting this emergency, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said. "We will partner up with the U.S. government, with President [Barack] Obama ... in order to develop as quickly as possible a vaccine for the Zika virus," she added.

As reported by the Voice of America, treatment for Zika has yet to be made. But there are already a number of pharmaceutical companies around the globe that are working on it.

Bharat Biotech, an Indian drug company, said that it was already developing the world's first Zika vaccine which is now ready to be tested on animals.

On the other hand, Sanofi, a French pharmaceutical giant, announced that the company's research for the Zika vaccine has begun.

As a part of the plan to eliminate the Zika virus-carrying Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes, the Brazilian government has sent out more than 500,000 personnel to inform and advice people about the disease and to clean the mosquitoes' breeding grounds.

"This virus, which only recently arrived in Brazil and Latin America, no longer is a distant nightmare but a real threat to all Brazilians' homes," President Rousseff said.

But unfortunately, the Zika "nightmare" is not just in Brazil but is already present across the Americas. In fact, Zika cases have already been reported in America's 26 states.

Carissa Etienne, the head of the Pan American Health Organization, said that what worries the ministers of the affected states is how fast the virus infections have spread. She also shared how her organization is willing to help fight against Zika. In fact, it has recently provided $850,000 to countries which have been affected by the virus.