Besides confirmed Zika cases, the CDC’s national registry tracks the pregnancies of women who might be infected with Zika, even if Zika has not been positively identified in their laboratory results and distinguished from other flaviviruses.
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“She will be referred to a maternal-foetal medicine specialist for counselling and advice”.
Declaring an outbreak a PHEIC requires officials to believe that the virus can pose a health risk for several countries and that it “potentially requires a coordinated global response”.
This count includes six pregnant women, two infants infected before birth and one person who had sexual contact with a traveler.
There is no vaccine or treatment for Zika, which is a close cousin of dengue and chikungunya and causes mild fever, rash and red eyes. So far, 1,500 pregnant women in the USA have been infected with the virus and at least 16 babies were born with birth defects.
All three had been to areas where Zika virus is being transmitted locally, specifically the Dominican Republic, El Salvador and the Philippines.
Due to Hurricane Hermine, state officials did not release their daily report on Friday.
He said the Ministry had implemented vector-control measures in the home of the woman and the places she had visited.
Goorhuis also noted it was possible Zika might eventually burn itself out after about a year or so of circulation, the way a related virus, chikungunya, recently did.
As of Thursday, officials reported there were 705 Zika virus cases in Florida.
There are no current drugs to prevent or treat Zika, but drugmaker Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. announced Thursday it is trying to develop a vaccine with funding coming from the USA government.
It added, however, that as part of its standard operations, an overtly ill traveller entering the U.S. might be referred for further medical evaluation.
The Bangladeshis have mild symptoms, said Mahbub-Uz-Zaman, the high commissioner of Bangladesh to Singapore, which is home to some two lakh Bangladeshis a lot of them working in the construction sector.
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“I don’t tell people about puppy dogs and ice cream”, he said. Like the first case, which was confirmed on Wednesday, the woman is living in the Sims Drive-Aljunied Crescent cluster, authorities said.
