One new case of Zika was reported in Orange County on Friday, according to the state health department.
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See your health care provider if you are pregnant and have traveled to a Zika-affected area within the last 12 weeks.
State health officials would not say where the testing was done, whether in a doctor’s office, medical clinic or hospital emergency room.
The virus is spread by mosquitoes, much like other tropical viruses.
“There is increasing evidence that pregnant women who get infected with the virus are at increased risk at giving birth to babies who have birth defects that involve the developing brain”, Humbaugh said.
Currently, Gupta said no local transmissions of the virus have been reported in the United States.
Jon Porter, health director at the University of Vermont, has also urged students to “do what they can to prevent getting bit by a mosquito or having a sexual encounter where they may be open to contracting the virus.” .
“The risk of it spreading now is extremely low because the mosquito season typically runs from May through October”, said Hut, who noted the primary mosquito that transmits the Zika virus isn’t even found in Ohio.
The CDC is also trying to find an effective insecticide because “we are finding a wide resistance to some insecticides”, Frieden said. “The one out of the five persons does get infected will have mild symptoms”, he said. Symptoms typically begin two to seven days after being bitten by an infected mosquito. The rest experience mild symptoms, including fever, muscle and joint aches, conjunctivitis, and a rash.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) travel alerts for destinations where Zika is spreading will now include recommendations specific to travel at elevations above and below 6,500 feet (2,000 meters). She had recently traveled to an area where the virus is prevalent, though further details on where in the county the woman resides or where she traveled, are being withheld to protect her identity.
Zika, an infectious viral illness, is primarily spread through the bite of a mosquito that carries the virus.
In Brazil alone, more than 640 cases of microcephaly (an abnormal smallness of the head in newborns) linked to the virus have been confirmed with at least another 4,200 additional suspected cases of the severe neurodevelopmental disorder.
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A female Aedes aegypti mosquito, a carrier of the Zika virus, feeds on human blood. A larger problem looms, though: While Brazil will be in its winter by August and the number of mosquitoes lower, it would take only a few visitors to contract Zika and carry the virus back to their home countries, many of which will be in their midsummer and swarming with mosquitoes.
