The CDC funding criteria was based on risk of local transmission, history of outbreaks and size of the population. “We are taking the necessary steps now, like [this] funding announcement to support Zika preparedness and response efforts”.
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To avoid contracting West Nile, Cronquist recommends wearing long sleeves and trousers outside, and applying an EPA-registered insect repellent containing DEET, an ingredient that also wards off ticks.
In an election year that has seen, as of late June, more than 3,000 people in the states and US territories (nearly 600 of which are pregnant women) diagnosed with the virus, the funding is still stuck in a Congress that would rather diddle and hold sit-down strikes while bugs carrying the disease bite.
Considering the surge in the Zika virus cases in the state, the Florida Department of Health said that it would continue updating the residents about the fresh cases of the virus and how to abstain from contracting it. The department said that it would also provide the numbers which are accounted by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
According to the Riverside University Health System-Public Health, the 50-year-old man recently traveled to the Caribbean. “Individual departments will receive funds ranging from $320,000 to $38 million”.
Meanwhile, the broader Obama administration has been applying pressure on Congress for $1.9 billion funding, to be devoted toward researching and developing a Zika vaccine. While the PHEP grants are an important tool to help communities prepare for and respond to public health emergencies, to expand mosquito control capabilities and develop a Zika vaccine and diagnostics, among other priorities, it requires resources beyond existing appropriations.
HOUSTON, Texas-The poorest parts of Houston remind Dr. Peter Hotez of some of the neighborhoods in Latin America hardest hit by Zika. The results showed that those mice with Wolbachia were less likely to become infected by Zika and that those who were infected were not capable of transmitting the virus in their saliva – the means by which the virus spreads from mosquitoes to humans.
Currently, there is no cure for Zika infection.
Zika symptoms usually affect only 20 percent of those infected, experts say. Researchers quickly expanded their research to include cases of Zika, which can cause a rash and relatively mild illness, although most of those infected have no symptoms at all.
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The virus has been found to cause microcephaly, a birth defect in which babies are born with abnormally small heads, and has been linked to a rare paralyzing condition called Guillain-Barré syndrome.
