Pregnant women should not travel to Zika-affected areas. The patient recently traveled to Honduras and was diagnosed with the virus upon returning to Dallas County. She has since recovered.
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He stayed at the Hong Kong airport before proceeding to Shenzhen by ferry the next day.
The risk of contracting the virus through human contact was low, so the bureau was not anxious about the spread of the illness in Hong Kong, Ko said, but he added the authorities were monitoring the situation closely.
The funding will also be used to enhance the ability of birth-defect registries in the U.S.to detect Zika-related risks.
There has been a link between women with Zika and a birth defect called microcephaly, which is characterized by a shrunken head. “Based on what we know now, the primary threat is to unborn children”.
The CDC recommends pregnant women postpone travel to areas where there has been outbreak, including Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Saint Martin, Suriname, U.S. Virgin Islands and Venezuela. Several areas have declared affected areas to be a public health emergency. Cover skin by wearing long-sleeved shirts and long trousers. “I wore sunscreen that had bug spray repellent in it. I didn’t go out on the deck of our condo like at dusk or dawn when the mosquitos, or bugs were more irritating”. “If they do have sexual intercourse they should make sure to use condoms and to not have sex with someone who is pregnant”.
Gov. Rick Scott said the state can only test fewer than 500 people for the Zika virus.
Zika is native to parts of Africa and Asia and gets transmitted by the daytime-biting Aedes mosquito.
The CDC said the virus lasts longer in semen than in blood.
The CDC tested and confirmed infection in the two state residents, both females, and released the information Tuesday.
The Zika virus is spreading rapidly through Latin America.
Earlier on Wednesday, Toni Minichiello, the coach of reining heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill, said Britain should move its preparation camp for the Rio Games outside Brazil and that he would not encourage his client to defend her title. The Olympics will also be held in Brazil’s winter, when colder temperatures should reduce the mosquito population.
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On the US mainland, though, the virus’s impact is likely to follow the pattern seen by dengue, another mosquito-borne viral disease, Tom Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told members of two House Foreign Affairs subcommittees in a joint hearing.
