While 452 travel-related cases were documented in Florida that year, just 11 people contracted the virus in the state.
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Pregnant women without symptoms of Zika infection can be offered testing two to 12 weeks after coming home from Zika-affected areas. They stressed, however, that more studies were needed to determine if those fluids could transmit the infection.
But health officials have confirmed that there are two cases of the Zika Virus in Nebraska.
Chief Medical Officer Professor Dame Sally Davies said: “We are determined to support worldwide efforts to understand how to diagnose the disease and control its spread”. There was a report of a Colorado researcher who picked up the virus in Africa and apparently spread it to his wife back home in 2008, and it was found in one man’s semen in Tahiti.
US health officials on Friday suggested people who live in or have traveled to areas affected by the Zika virus outbreak should use condoms or stop having sex.
The UK government has asked all airlines to use insecticide on all flights returning to the UK from countries with confirmed transmission of the Zika virus.
Frieden also announced new guidelines for men who have partners who are pregnant.
The CDC also said that women who aren’t pregnant, but who are concerned about contracting the virus through sex could consider using condoms during sex or abstaining if their partner has traveled to an area with Zika cases.
For the first time, scientists in South America discovered the presence of an active Zika virus in urine and saliva samples, according to a Brazilian Health Institute.
To date, the mosquito-borne virus has spread to more than 20 countries in the Americas, including some where sexual violence is rampant.
The CDC is now working with local and state health departments to prevent local transmission of Zika.
Some pregnant women infected with the virus have given birth to babies with microcephaly, a disorder which leads to severe developmental issues and can be fatal.
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The virus is thought to remain in an infected person’s blood for a week or less. The World Health Organization says the virus has now been detected in 23 countries, and the threat has gone from small to one of “alarming proportions”.
