It is meant to trigger an immune response that would protect against the mosquito-borne virus, according to a statement from the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
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“I am very disappointed that the Congress went on recess before actually agreeing what they would do to put the resources into this fight”, Clinton said. Now, it is considered as the first Zika-related death reported in Texas. But a new report in the Wall Street Journal is raising some questions.
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Obama had initially asked the Republican-led Congress to approve $1.9 billion in emergency funds.
Officials confirmed Tuesday that an infant died shortly after birth in Texas because her mother had been infected with Zika while traveling to Latin America during her pregnancy.
There’s no evidence that mosquitoes are transmitting Zika in any other areas of Miami, the Florida Department of Health said.
The virus, which can be spread by mosquito or sexually, typically causes mild or no symptoms but has been linked to fetal death and serious birth defects, including a condition of abnormally small heads, microcephaly, and eye defects, hearing loss and growth issues.
Zika-related brain damage in foetuses “is one of the saddest congenital birth outcomes imaginable”, said Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. In 1952, the first human cases of Zika were detected and since then, outbreaks of disease have been reported in tropical Africa, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.
Texas had its first Zika-related casualty.
Texas health officials on Tuesday announced the first Zika-related newborn death in the state.
According to CDC guidance, providers should consider testing all pregnant women with a history of travel to a Zika-affected area for the virus. The department still believes active transmissions are only taking place within the identified area of Wynwood in Miami-Dade County.
Pregnant women should not travel to any area where the Zika virus is spreading, including the Wynwood neighborhood in Miami, the CDC says.
“Now that the CDC has confirmed that mosquitoes in Florida are spreading the disease on their own, we have entered a new unsafe stage in Zika’s spread in the United States”.
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“The federal government must stop playing politics and Congress needs to immediately come back to session to resolve this”, Scott said. Roughly one in five people infected with Zika experience symptoms.
