In addition to mosquitos, it is transmitted through sex and from mother to child. “But there’s a “but” here, that we might be able to have the resources and funding to support vaccine development”.
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“Our hope would be that within a year to 18 months, we might be able to have a vaccine”, said Vivek Murthy.
In herletter to members of Congress, Burwell complained that National Institutes of Health money is being taken away from other worthy causes in order to fund the fight against Zika.
The declaration of a public health emergency enables the use of public funds to hire workers to eradicate mosquitoes in an effort to reduce the spread of the infection and to educate women of childbearing age on how best to avoid the virus, which can also be spread through sexual contact. While the virus generally causes mild symptoms in adults – and only about 20 percent even have symptoms at all – Zika’s connection to a host of different congenital birth defects makes it particularly unsafe for women who are pregnant or wish to become pregnant. The New York Times shares this information that has health care officials concerned.
“Our experts at the (federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), the folks on the front lines have been doing their best in making due by moving funds from other areas, but now the money we need to fight Zika is rapidly running out”, Obama said at an August 4 Pentagon press conference. A second test, the IgM antibodies test, tests blood to see if the Zika virus has ever been present in the body.
State officials have said they have close to $26 million set aside to fighting Zika, but Miami-Dade County so far as received around $300,000 of that.
The emergency was declared one day after the USA surgeon general visited Puerto Rico and said he expected 25 percent of Puerto Rico’s almost 3.5 million people will be infected with Zika by year’s end. The reason: better insect control as well as window screens and air conditioning that should help curtail any outbreaks.
Puerto Rico reported the first microcephaly case acquired on USA soil in May, involving a dead foetus that a woman turned over to health authorities. These infections in the United States are thought to have occurred because the patients’ partners had traveled to countries where Zika is circulating, the CDC said.
There’s no evidence of active spread of the Zika Virus, outside Wynwood.
Zika is a mosquito-borne virus.
Florida has spent almost $18 million of Scott’s $26.2 million, with $5 million going toward testing of pregnant women and another $5 million for contracted workers.
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