She says his is the first positive Zika test at an Alaska facility.
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The virus has been spreading across the Americas since previous year.
The World Health Organization said the new research is a welcome addition to the existing body of Zika research but also cautioned that more study is needed to confirm whether Culex mosquitoes can transmit the Zika virus. “We need to learn how effective they can be in transmitting the viruses”. “So far, every place we’ve seen Zika has been a place where you have Aedes aegypti mosquitoes”, he said.
Montana has been awarded $195,000 in federal funding to help fight and prevent the Zika virus. Some which do fall in the Culex family mercifully choose other creatures to annoy, such as birds.
Hospitals and other facilities that want Zika-screened blood will have to make a request.
“You should assume you have been infected”, Sharlot said, noting only 20 percent of the people infected with Zika show any symptoms. The Southern house mosquito that spreads West Nile likes small, stagnant pools of water with high organic content, like storm drains.
“I watch our current warm weather streak with interest here because I just know the virus is growing in mosquitoes”, Neitzel said. Miami-Dade County Mosquito Control Operations Manager Chalmers Vasquez said inspectors are trying to get into every backyard to spray and eliminate breeding sites.
Before this study was completed by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), Zika was thought to be carried exclusively by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
“Surveillance for exotic mosquitoes is conducted at global air and sea ports to make sure we detect any exotic mosquitoes as soon as possible and so make sure species that may be very efficient disease vectors don’t establish in New Zealand”. Neitzel said in the mid-2000s his team found evidence of La Crosse encephalitis-carrying mosquitoes in the Mankato area.
“It’s definitely out there and we want people to protect themselves, especially their children playing in wooded areas”, he said.
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Bug spray seems to be the best measure against mosquitoes no matter what disease they may or may not carry. Talk to your doctor about your travel plans if you must go.
