The most common symptoms of Zika virus infection are mild fever and skin rash, usually accompanied by conjunctivitis, muscle or joint pain, and general malaise that begins 2-7 days after the bite of an infected mosquito. Rocha’s doctors don’t know if her son will ever be able to walk or talk.
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The health department also said that there have been no locally-transmitted Zika cases reported in Georgia or anywhere in the USA, but cases have been reported in returning travelers.
An employee conducts fumigation to prevent the Zika virus, in the Carabayllo District, in the Lima Province, Peru, on January 29, 2016. Thursday, it warned the virus is spreading “explosively” with three to four million cases of Zika infection possible in the Americas over the next year.
Almost half of Colombia’s Zika cases have been reported in the country’s Caribbean region, the bulletin said.
Moreover, the center has already developed the detection reagent using nucleic acid, “which allows the researchers to test and confirm whether the suspected patients are indeed infected”, He Xiong, deputy director of the Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said on Friday. The majority of people who get the virus, though, may not notice symptoms.
Zika spreads through mosquito bites.
Severe disease requiring hospitalization is uncommon and fatalities are rare.
The virus, for which there is still no vaccine or treatment, is mosquito-borne and linked to brain damage in thousands of Brazil’s infants. For that reason, the CDC is recommending that women who are pregnant or may become pregnant not to travel to the 24 countries where the disease is widespread.
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The British Olympic Association says it will continue to carefully monitor the Zika virus in Brazil amid World Health Organisation warnings that the current outbreak could soon be declared an worldwide emergency. Zika virus is believed to cause neurological problems like microcephaly, a condition of abnormally small head in babies.
