So Mecklenburg health officials have hired extra employees this year to help with mosquito control. “There’s always going to be a disease spread by these invasive mosquitos, and we don’t know what’s going to be after Zika”.
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“If we detect populations or if the Department of Health identifies infected individuals, we will literally have to go house to house, yard to yard within a 150-200 yard radius”, he says.
Efforts will also include addressing the public health concerns from La Crosse encephalitis, West Nile Virus and a host of arboviruses associated with mosquitoes.
Bob England, MSOH, RS, is the chief environmental public health officer at the Erie County Health Department.
FOLLOWING reports of Singapore’s first imported case of the Zika virus on Friday, Malaysia’s Health Ministry has advised its citizens who work in the island republic to take precautions.
The administration says more money is needed for mosquito control, purchasing diagnostic tests and developing and manufacturing a vaccine.
Last February, officials reported that a woman who had sexual intercourse with a Zika-infected man who had just returned from a trip to Colombia, contracted the virus.
The Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says, without additional emergency funding from Congress, it may have to stop or delay measures to prevent the Zika virus.
MIAMI – The mosquitoes that can spread Zika are already buzzing among us. It primarily spreads through mosquito, but some researchers also believe that it can spread through sex too. However, Zika virus infection during pregnancy can cause severe birth defects.
For adults, Zika symptoms are generally mild, but for the unborn fetus, the results are tragic.
USA states and territories can now apply to CDC for funds to fight Zika locally. The virus causes fever, rash, joint pain and red eyes.
Locally occurring mosquitoes have not been shown to carry Zika.
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“What we’ve seen in South America and Central America is a condition called microcephaly and this is a condition of small head and poor brain development and this can have a significant impact on a child’s overall development”. Mosquitoes like to lay eggs on damp wood, Paskewitz said.
