Two of the Utah women are still pregnant, including a case confirmed earlier this month by Utah County of a woman who caught the virus in an unnamed country in a Zika-affected part of the world and then moved to Utah County. Funding is distributed through CDC’s Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases Cooperative Agreement (ELC), will support activities to protect the health of the American public, especially pregnant women, including epidemiologic surveillance and investigation, improving mosquito control and monitoring, and strengthening laboratory capacity.
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Officials in Florida are concerned about how much the Zika response will cost.
New York City Department of Health officials said the baby’s mother was infected after traveling to an area with ongoing Zika transmission.
If confirmed, the two cases – one reported in Broward County on Thursday and one in Miami-Dade County on Tuesday – would be the first locally acquired cases of the virus in the continental United States. Neither mother nor child is presently capable of spreading the virus to others or to mosquitoes in the area.
Meanwhile, the Florida Department of Health said the state has 19 new travel-related cases.
The baby did test positive for Zika, and the health department said it is working closely with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the case.
Typically, the Zika virus doesn’t cause serious illness.
“We are not anticipating the spread of Zika virus in Wyoming”, said Kim Deti, spokeswoman for the Wyoming Department of Health.
“Anyone who lives in or travels to an area where Zika virus is found and has not already been infected can get it from mosquito bites”.
Anyone concerned about infection with Zika virus should talk to their medical provider and share their travel history.
Pediatric experts at the workshop are reviewing the potential consequences of Zika infection and plan to make recommendations on ways to treat Zika-exposed infants.
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On Thursday, fogging trucks drove through a Miami-Dade County neighborhood where health officials are investigating a Zika diagnosis that doesn’t appear to have connection to travel outside the United States. He’s concerned Zika may already be established in mosquitoes in Florida, Texas and other states along the Gulf Coast.
