For travelers, United Airlines has announced that customers who booked flights to areas affected by the virus will be able to reschedule or get refunds. Alternately, they can reschedule their trip at no cost.
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According to the CDC, in both cases, the individuals recently traveled out of the country.
UAL stock is up 1.8% Wednesday.
According to the Associated Press, the committee plans daily inspections of the Olympic and Paralympic sites to seek out stagnant waters where Zika-spreading mosquitoes could breed.
They say they are as little as a month away from confirming that the virus is also being carried and transmitted by the much more common Culex mosquito.
“We just didn’t have the conditions or resources necessary to stop the mosquito or the virus”, says Maria da Gloria Teixeira, an epidemiologist in the neighboring state of Bahia and a director of the Brazilian Association of Collective Health, a grouping of public health professionals. Health Ministry lab tests confirmed the presence of Zika.
While North and South Americans wait for a vaccine, the best hope may lie in targeting the Zika carriers: the mosquitoes.
The CDC has also said that cases of the neurological disorder Guillain-Barre syndrome have been reported in patients with probable Zika virus infection in Brazil and French Polynesia, although more study is needed to confirm the link. Infections are also a cause – in the United States, one of the leading causes is cytomegalovirus – although Zika-like viruses have not previously been linked to microcephaly.
Zika virus was first found in Uganda in 1947 but remained limited to Africa and Southeast Asia for decades.
VENEZUELA: Officials decline to issue guidelines about Zika or release epidemiological data, but have confirmed the virus is in Venezuela.
In Italy, the Spallanzani National Institute of Infectious Disease said four cases were recorded in March 2015, while in Portugal, the health ministry said four Portuguese had been infected.
UTHSCSA said testing for Zika is being coordinated through the CDC and state and local health departments. It was present in 21 out of 55 countries and territories in the Americas as of that update. “They aren’t going hand in hand with policies to make contraception and emergency contraception available, especially in El Salvador where those things are very inaccessible”.
A widespread eradication effort eliminated Aedes aegypti from Brazil during the 1950s, but the mosquito slowly returned over the next decades from neighboring nations, public-health experts have said.
The Aarhus University Hospital says the patient ran a fever, had a headache and muscle aches and was discovered as having the virus on Tuesday.
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Denmark and Switzerland yesterday joined a growing number of European countries to report Zika infections in tourists returning from Latin America, where the mosquito-borne virus has been blamed for a surge in birth defects.
