Pregnant women are recommended to consider not going to the event, or to talk to their physician if they find the need to go. “We have a 2½-year-old son, my wife and I, and we’d like to add to that family and grow it”, Willis said.
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Meanwhile, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says it has identified 14 possible cases of sexually transmitted Zika infections nationwide, all cases in which men who visited areas with Zika outbreaks infected female partners who had not traveled. None of the women was hospitalized. Two of the nine women tested positive for Zika later in their pregnancies, during the second trimester. Two women had miscarriages.
“Additional work is needed to understand if this is an isolated finding and to confirm whether Zika virus can actually cause hydrops fetalis”, he said, in a press release. Two are still pregnant.
“As a result of this expanded testing being offered in NY, more women and their clinicians will have better information to make the right healthcare decisions at the cutting edge of laboratory science”, said DOH Commissioner Dr. Howard Zucker. Today it’s been six weeks to the day from CDC’s first announcement and travel briefing about Zika.
In the first confirmed Zika case in Los Angeles County, a teenage girl came back from a trip to El Salvador in November and has since recovered.
Brazil, on the other hand, has confirmed more than 580 cases of microcephaly, a rare birth defect characterized by small heads and a potentially underlying brain damage. All of the infected patients are returning travelers from countries where Zika virus is ongoing. One of them delivered a seemingly healthy baby and the other is continuing her pregnancy without complications. It can also be transmitted from a pregnant mother to her baby during pregnancy or around the time of birth.
Understanding the scale and range of neurological disease associated with Zika virus infection is an urgent priority, warn researchers from the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Infection and Global Health.
Among the various steps undertaken to check zika, the National AIDS Control Organisation has issued advisory to blood banks and potential blood donors to prevent transmission of the virus infection through blood transfusion. The illness usually mild and people might not realize they are infected. “We don’t know what we’re in for down there”, Rick Suhr said. Among pregnant women in the country, nine are confirmed sick with the infection, with 10 more being investigated at present. Because of the increase in the number of cases, health authorities are racing to come up with a treatment or a vaccine that will help curb the spread of the virus.
The new report was published online in the CDC’s MMWR journal Friday.
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These cases are from multiple unidentified states.
