Local transmission has not been detected in the United States, the release stated, but the invasive Aedes mosquitoes that can transmit Zika virus are present in Orange County. Men who have traveled to or live in an area with Zika should use condoms or abstain from sex with pregnant partners.
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“It would be expected simply because Zika has been found to be existing in the Philippines”, Health Secretary Janette Garin told doctors and other health workers from various medical societies at Friday’s orientation meeting on the mosquito-borne disease.
When a pregnant woman has become infected, she can then pass the Zika virus to her unborn fetus – either during pregnancy or at the time of delivery.
Cases confirmed at state laboratories were not included in the total, so there could be others, the CDC said. About 165 of the cases involve pregnant women; 44 of these women have delivered without any complications or abnormalities.
The CDC said that more 30 states have reported cases of Zika.
“Typically people experience a mild rash, maybe some joint pains, some red eyes, conjunctivitis, and sometimes fever, headache and muscle pain”, said New Mexico Department of Heath Physician Dr. Fermin Arguello.
Two of the positive tests were returned by the newly opened testing laboratory at the University Hospital of the West Indies. “And after spring break, I mean, we’ve got thousands and thousands of people visiting all over the place, so that can happen”. “We want to be head of it. And we want to be taking aggressive action to make sure that we’re doing everything we can to combat the possible spread of Zika”, Cuomo said at a briefing at his Midtown office with Health Commissioner Howard Zucker. “The question is what kind of transmission those cases are going to have for us”.
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Zika can also be spread from mother to child during pregnancy and through sexual contact, the CDC reports. Mary DiOrio, the medical director at the Ohio Department of Health, says there is no medicine to specifically treat the Zika virus, but hospitalizations and death are rare.
