“While this is a travel-associated case, we know that prevention is key to reducing the risk of Zika virus infection”.
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A baby girl has died in Harris County from complications related to the Zika virus, local public health officials said Tuesday.
“I will be visiting health professionals on the frontlines down in Miami, who are confronting the Zika challenge”, Clinton said.
Lawmakers should pass the US$1.1 billion (RM4.431 billion) bipartisan bill for the mosquito-borne virus, Clinton said, or come up with a new compromise.
“I am very disappointed that Congress went on recess before actually agreeing on what they would do to put the resources into this fight”, Clinton said.
Hillary Clinton added her voice Tuesday to the chorus calling for Congress to return to Washington as soon as possible to pass emergency funding to respond to the Zika virus.
Florida Republicans Marco Rubio and Gov. Rick Scott have also called on Congress to come back and fund the Zika fight.
Last month, the Lone Star state reported its first case of microcephaly linked to Zika, also an infant in the Harris County. She’s already called out the Trump campaign’s rhetoric on Zika and sent aides to Puerto Rico early on.
The victim is a female Marathon resident who recently returned from a Caribbean trip, officials with the Florida Department of Health in Monroe County said. “Apparently they believe an earmark for Planned Parenthood in the future is more important that preventing the threat of Zika now”.
Because this latest research, published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) on Tuesday, was an observational study looking back at cases of arthrogryposis, it could not draw definitive conclusions on whether Zika is a direct cause.
The ongoing Zika outbreak was first detected a year ago in Brazil, where it has been linked to more than 1,700 cases of the birth defect microcephaly.
Clinton said she wanted Schultz in Congress “by my side”. Kaine and others to end that filibuster and pass the bill, but it doesn’t sound like they’re prepared to do that. All four were exposed to the less-than-one-square mile area.
DSHS is coordinating with officials in Harris County and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to follow Zika cases. At this point, the continental USA isn’t experiencing anything close to an epidemic-1,800 cases in a country this size is barely a blip on the radar, not to mention that outside of a small part of South Florida, those cases have not been contracted locally.
According to Texas health officials, the mother was in Latin America, where she was infected, and the baby acquired the infection in the womb.
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As the Florida Zika cases increase, a major credit-rating agency has warned the virus could have an impact on the state’s tourism industry and related revenues, including sales taxes, gas taxes and hotel bed taxes. Mosquitos, which are the primary carriers of the disease, account for somewhere between six to seventeen transmissions that have occurred in the United States.
