Pouilly said that safe abortion services should be provided to the full extent of the law.
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It’s not known at what stage in pregnancy Zika would be most unsafe, so any pregnant women should take care, Frieden said.
“I don’t think it’s scaring people, it’s telling people that your state government is going to be prepared”, Soctt said at the Florida Department of Health in Hillsborough County. The primary means of transmission remains the mosquito.
The WHO indicated reports of associations of the Zika virus with microcephaly and other neurological conditions.
There has been no documented case of a woman infecting a man through sexual activity.
Egypt’s Ministry of Health confirmed that there are now no cases of the zika virus in the country and has warned pregnant women and those who hope to conceive children against travelling to South and Central America.
On Friday, the CDC issued new recommendations to those who have traveled to Zika-prone areas: Use condoms during sex or don’t have sex.
During the first week of infection, Zika virus can be found in the blood and passed from an infected person to another mosquito through mosquito bites. But sharp increase in birth defects in Brazil has caused concerns.
Officials previously recommended pregnant women postpone trips to more than two dozen countries with Zika outbreaks, mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean. The disease was diagnosed in a pregnant woman who had reportedly just returned from Colombia.
Most Texans are at minimal risk of infection, and our public health system’s response so far has been swift and focused. This adds to evidence from previous studies of a Zika outbreak in French Polynesia in 2013 and 2014 that also detected the virus in these bodily fluids. It’s also not known if a woman who is infected with Zika can spread the disease to a man through sex, the agency said.
Zika, linked to thousands of birth defects in Brazil, is primarily transmitted through mosquito bites, but word surfaced this week of infections through sex and blood transfusions, and news of the presence of the virus in the saliva and urine of two patients prompted new worries.
He spoke Friday at a press conference in Rio de Janeiro.
The Center of Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden, responding to questions about Brazil’s reaction to Friday’s announcement, said it is the job of health officials to “provide people with all of the information and allow them to make their own choices”.
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A Brazilian research team formed by the public health research institution Ossa Crud Foundation said it had discovered traces of the virus in the saliva and urine of infected patients who had already displayed symptoms of the disease.
