“In the countries that have been hardest hit by the Zika virus, in Latin America and the Caribbean, thousands of cases of microcephaly have left parents distraught and pregnant women fearful”, Philpott said in a statement Wednesday.
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“Mosquitoes will lay eggs in a soda-capful of water; that’s how little water that they need”, said Kara Cox, a county vector control specialist.
Across the Capitol, at a hearing called by House Democrats, Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health, acknowledged, “It is very hard to get people to invest in something that hasn’t happened yet”.
According to local reports at least 16 cases of the Zika virus have been identified in Maryland, while at least four have been reported in San Antonio and at least six in Kentucky.
“My job is to keep the 20 million people that live in our state safe, the over 100 million people who come here as tourists safe”, Scott said.
Most people are concerned about the unknowns of the disease.
As the world struggles against the rapid spread of the Zika virus, the Canadian government is opening its wallet to shell out almost $5 million for research and global aid.
The buzz around the Governor’s office is the growing threat of Zika to Florida, as Florida’s Department of Health confirms two new cases in the state. The fetuses of mice that were infected with Zika had stunted growth and brain damage.
This is not the sort of testing researchers would do starting with humans, so what the Wash U team did was find a way to make pregnant mice susceptible to the virus, and then expose them to it, giving them a way to map Zika’s path. Common symptoms of the virus include fever, eye redness, achy joints and a rash.
The Indiana Blood Center has been forced to defer up to 30 percent of donors at some post-spring-break blood drives because they had traveled to areas where the Zika virus is being transmitted, according to a spokeswoman.
Zika is a mosquito-borne disease that’s been linked to serious birth defects in some babies whose mothers contracted the virus while they were pregnant.
The study reinforces growing evidence linking the Zika outbreak “to the alarming number of cases of congenital brain malformations”, the authors write.
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“As we head into the summer travel months, it is very important for travelers to Zika affected areas to take precautions to avoid mosquito bites”. Upon returning to the USA, she went to Danbury Hospital to get Zika test.
