“As of April 20, we have 388 cases (nationally) but they all have been travel, meaning that somebody had come from a Zika area that had the Zika virus and has come back and due to testing they found out that they had the virus”, Werner said.
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Zika is primarily spread by Aedes mosquitoes, but can be transmitted via sexual contact and in rare cases from a mother to her child.
Brazil has a new means of fighting the mosquito-borne Zika virus. While most people who contract Zika may simply have to deal with a rash, fever, or other flu-like symptoms for several days, the virus appears to be particularly risky for pregnant women.
So far 220 patients have been tested for the virus in CT.
He said the city stopped using mosquito control fogging trucks sometime in the late 1980s. “But at the same time, our health and the health of our families is paramount”.
Earlier this month, U.S. health officials confirmed, after long debates and months of uncertainty, that Zika causes microcephaly and other severe fetal brain defects.
“Avoid unnecessary travel to affected countries”, he said.
“We are very confident that we are taking the overly cautious steps to ensure we have a very successful two game series in San Juan”, Warecki said.
Health experts recommend if you’re traveling back to the United States, from an area affected by the Zika virus, you try to avoid mosquito bites.
The guideline took into account people who can not follow the preventions because they were already infected. Zika infections are mounting quickly in the Americas (more than 800 have been reported on USA turf alone), and those numbers are sure to explode once mosquito season gets going.
Health officials are pretty much all in agreement that Zika virus will likely spread throughout North America as the weather gets warmer. Cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome have increased in countries where there is a Zika Virus outbreak.
Dr. Sonja Rasmussen is director of the CDC’s Division of Public Health Information and Dissemination.
“We don’t know if the risk is somewhere in the range of 1 percent or in the range of 30 percent”, she said.
“That is why prevention is really the key”.
DPH said that 388 cases of the virus have been reported in 41 states and the District of Columbia, which includes 33 cases of Zika in pregnant women and 8 that were sexually transmitted. “Aedes aegypti is widespread here”.
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Many outdoor workers are at great risk of getting bitten by mosquitoes with Zika virus.
