“Data shows that between 15 and 20 pregnant women who were infected have babies with brain damage, especially during early pregnancy”, he told Bernama, here, today. Houston can count on about $400,000 and Los Angeles County, $720,000, the CDC said.
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Salama said officials are still trying to figure out whether the two known strains of the disease both cause microcephaly.
The discovery of Zika inside these mosquitoes confirms that the insects are in fact spreading the virus in the U.S. As Hurricane Hermine hits Florida – where 49 people have been infected by local transmission – the state’s governor is bracing for the impact, reports CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller.
“Wala po tayong local transmission”. As of July, five months after the World Health Organization announced Zika as a global public health emergency, dozens of vaccines were “still in the pipeline”, the The Lancet medical journal reported.
The vast majority of Zika infections have been in Latin America and the Caribbean, with Brazil the epicenter.
“While this study reminds us that many parts of the world have ideal conditions for the virus to take hold it can’t pinpoint exactly where this will happen”, said Jonathan Ball, professor of molecular virology at the University of Nottingham. Zika virus is transmitted by daytime-active mosquitoes and has been isolated from a number of species in the genus Aedes.
Authorities in Singapore have urged pregnant women with the symptoms of Zika infection to get tested for the virus.
The Centers for Disease Control reportedly said that a Aedes aegypti mosquito can spread the virus if it bites a Zika virus – infected individual and subsequently bites another individual. But although Zika infection is said to be “mild” for adults, no one can be complacent. State officials did not reveal how the mosquitoes were captured.
But nearly daily downpours, average temperatures of 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), large green areas and a population of more than five million people packed in a city that is half the size of Los Angeles, which has a population of 4 million, make Singapore a hospitable area for mosquitoes.
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As of last Friday, the CDC had spent $194 million of the $222 million it was given to fight the virus, said agency director Dr. Thomas Frieden, The New York Times reported.
