From Monday to Thursday, 50,000 soldiers accompanied by municipal health workers will spray homes with insecticides and larvicides to kill the Aedes aegypti mosquito which transmits not only Zika virus, but also dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever, Rebelo said.
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Reporting the case Wednesday, the Oregon Health Authority would not say whether the woman is pregnant, or where she traveled, out of concern for her privacy.
A statement signed by the journals Nature, Science and The Lancet, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, France’s Institut Pasteur, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development said data was a crucial tool in fighting the public health emergency.
Shenzhen Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau aims strict border quarantine checks having detected the country’s first imported case of Zika virus on Tuesday.
The Zika virus has been known to cause birth defects when pregnant women become infected.
Only one in five people infected with Zika experience illness and even then they are normally mild symptoms.
The Zika virus in Central and South America is a strain from French Polynesia.
There is now no cure or vaccine for Zika.
“This report describes evidence of link between Zika virus infection and microcephaly…” wrote the team. If you have the virus and later get pregnant, your baby should not be affected.
“Most important, it is necessary to understand that this is a very fluid situation, with new facts emerging on Zika every day, so it’s important to use reliable sources for information, such as the (federal) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), state Department of Health, and county and municipal health departments, ” said Perez. Pest control companies in Texas are getting an early surge in business because of concerns that mosquitoes bearing the Zika virus will arrive from neighboring Mexico.
Testing of Guanabara Bay conducted by the AP over the a year ago shows disease-causing viruses linked to human sewage at levels well above what would be considered alarming in the USA or Europe. The Pan American Health Organization and the CDC are actively investigating whether there is a link and, if so, to determine the specific trimester of highest likelihood of transmission.
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