“I can foresee now when people that are planning to come to Florida, to go fishing perhaps, will decide to cancel their trip because they’re anxious about mosquitoes and they’re anxious about Zika”, Rubio said.
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A Yuma County resident is recovering from Zika after traveling overseas and contracting the virus from a Zika-infected area.
However, the virus can cause severe birth defects, and pregnant women are being urged to stay away from the Miami area of Wynwood where mosquitoes with Zika are believed to be lurking. If the threat to the state’s bottom line can’t spur action, do Florida’s 400-plus Zika patients, including 55 pregnant women, constitute enough of a crisis to free up money?
Curbelo and U.S. Rep. Ander Crenshaw (R-FL) joined the entire Florida delegation in signing a letter that urges the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to reconsider its current allocation formula for distribution of Zika-specific funds.
Don Stewart, McConnell’s spokesman, said Nelson’s proposal isn’t at all plausible unless Democrats are willing to end their filibuster of the anti-Zika bill that the House already has passed.
Although there have been no confirmed cases in Texoma, the Department of State Health Services reports 93 cases so far in Texas.
House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan accused Democrats of obstructing the funding and said President Barack Obama’s administration has failed to spend existing funds to prevent the spread of the mosquito-borne virus.
Also experts in Roosevelt County New Mexico say mosquitoes there have the capability of transferring Zika.
MEDICAL Director at the Mt Hope Womens Hospital in the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex Dr Karen Sohan, has confirmed that no baby has been born with microcephaly in Trinidad and Tobago. State labs proactively test for Zika.
Two children have been born in California with Zika virus-related microcephaly, according to officials, one of them in Alameda County. The number of local Zika cases jumped to 14 and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a travel advisory warning pregnant women to avoid visiting sections of Miami. Hawai’i Department of Health photo. It can also be transformed through sex by an infected person. Lawmakers who balked at spending more than a billion to fight Zika should consider the billions that Medicaid will spend to care for severely disabled babies – unless the United States finds a way to protect them from Zika.
“I think it’s important to note that the mosquitoes that transmit Zika the best are Aedes, aegypti mosquitoes”.
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Aside from the typical tips like wearing mosquito repellent, wearing long sleeves and trousers, and draining standing water around your home, you should also avoid traveling to high risk areas, and abstaining from sex with anyone who has.
