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The Lancet Infectious Diseases published a new model showing China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, and Pakistan as countries expected to be at greatest risk of Zika virus epidemic.
But information released Tuesday by federal and state health officials suggest that contact with bodily fluids, such as tears, discharge from infected eyes, saliva, stomach contents, urine or stool could have been how a Utah man became infected after caring for his elderly father.
Several people have been diagnosed with Zika virus in Northern Ireland in the a year ago.
The Public Health Agency confirmed to the BBC that fewer than five patients were infected with Zika, with one being treated last week.
“They will essentially begin to go door-to-door, both educating folks as they meet people, but also inspecting the area to see if there are any opportunities to reduce chances of mosquitos reproducing”, O’Neal said.
According to the CDC, Zika virus has the potential to be spread through a mosquito bite, through unprotected sexual contact, through blood transfusion and an infected pregnant woman can pass Zika virus to her fetus during pregnancy.
Persons returning from an area with local Zika transmission should continue to wear insect repellant for at least three weeks upon their return.
Worldwide health officials have found a connection between pregnant women contracting the virus and a birth defect called microcephaly in their newborn infants.
Previously regarded as localised and relatively harmless, a massive outbreak that started past year in Brazil (see the chart below) brought the illness sharply into focus because of emerging links to microcephaly – a congenital disorder that can shrink unborn babies’ brains and heads and reduce life expectancy.
The PHA said there was no specific medical treatment for Zika.
“I thought it was another overinflated scare like Ebola”.
Stay tuned for the latest news on the Zika virus in Southeast Asia.
“By spraying this during the evening hours while the bees are less active and back in their hives, it’s also the same time the mosquitoes are more active”, Channell said.
“Zika may spread to other areas of Southeast Asia but to what level is hard to predict”.
“Zika is no longer an abstract threat in the United States”, Stanton said in a statement. “The inaction has to end now”.
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“All have a history of travel to Zika-affected areas”, she added.
