The effort is created to help spread awareness about Zika, educate individuals and also help state officials identify people who have traveled in affected areas sooner.
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There are daily flights to Puerto Rico and to other countries affected by Zika and the state department of public health is warning travelers to be careful.
The Zika virus may cause microcephaly in unborn children at a rate as high as 13 percent, a new study has found.
That condition, known as microcephaly, is characterized at birth by an abnormally small head and often incomplete brain development. But in the previous year, infections in pregnant women have been strongly linked to fetal deaths and to potentially severe birth defects, mostly in Brazil.
The study comes just weeks before the start of summer and mosquito season across the United States.
With Memorial Day weekend approaching, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hopes to keep the Zika virus on your mind.
The Florida Department of Health told News4Jax on Tuesday that there is a second confirmed case of the virus in St. Johns County.
Since last spring, Brazil has been the epicenter of a Zika outbreak, and almost 5,000 babies have been diagnosed with microcephaly. “That is safe for pregnant women”.
With South Florida’s rainy season approaching and the numbers of Aedes aegypti and aedes albopictus mosquitoes that transmit the disease expected to rise – along with increases in worldwide travel from Zika-affected areas, such as Brazil, which will host the Summer Olympics – Miami-Dade and state officials have launched efforts to combat the spread of the infectious disease.
Mosquito sprayings have become routine in Laurel as city officials continue to ask residents to help prevent mosquito breeding grounds in their yards while city officials take precautions against the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which is being reported throughout the country. The virus has been linked to birth defects in babies of infected mothers.
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They said “the estimated risk due to infection in the first trimester ranged from 0.88 percent.to 13.2 pecent”. AP material published by LongIsland.com, is done so with explicit permission. Please see our terms of service for more information.
