With financial help from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), this new study will be conducted by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
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The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has started a statewide surveillance program to monitor the mosquitoes that spread Zika, and is getting ready to release a plan of action.
SOUTHERN UTAH – + Video -The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports almost 1,000 cases of Zika Virus have been confirmed in the United States.
Despite Zika virus being rampant in Brazil, the Olympic Committee told athletes and spectators that the virus spreading is at a very low risk level.
World number one Jason Day, Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry are among those to have pulled out of the competition due to concerns about the Zika virus.
Zika is mostly transmitted through mosquito bites, though sexual transmission is also possible. And, when needed, the agency will test mosquitoes to see if they’re infected. But now, new research out of Brazil shows Zika causes more than just Microcephaly.
Not much information was given about the person who contracted Zika, except that it was a local woman who traveled to out of the country about three weeks ago.
Zika virus is commonly transmitted through the mosquito. Really, the remedy is just to protect yourself with bug spray, as we all did in those hot summer days.”Jordan has spent parts of the last three years in Curitiba, Brazil, a city of almost 2 million people about 10 hours south of Rio”.
Seven babies born in the U.S.to Zika-infected mothers have birth defects, and another five women with Zika had pregnancy losses as of June 23, according to the CDC. It has already been declared an worldwide public health emergency by the World Health Organization.
Many Florida families, including the McRaes, are taking the recommended steps to keep mosquitos away, but said they wanted even more protection by enlisting the help of professionals to spray their property for mosquitos.
“Our focus of this campaign has been and continues to be for individuals, particularly pregnant women and their male partners, traveling to Zika impacted countries”, he said.
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Florida has been monitoring pregnant women with evidence of Zika regardless of symptoms since January.
