There have been around 1,300 confirmed cases of microcephaly – babies born with small brains – in Brazil, with thousands more under investigation.
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“We have been working diligently with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to expand our mosquito-testing protocols”, said Steven Goode, director of the County Environmental Services Department.
Lobasso said agents must disclose “all information known to the agent that is material to the client’s travel plans” or they risk being held liable for negligence should an issue arise.
Mice aren’t normally vulnerable to Zika virus.
Aedes aegypti, or the yellow fever mosquito, has been in Maricopa County for years and can carry the Zika virus.
In one recent case of Zika virus infection, a diffuse papular descending eruption, petechiae on the palate, and hyperemic sclerae were key symptoms of infection with the mosquito-borne virus, according to a case report published online May 11 in JAMA Dermatology. Typically if a person does get sick, the symptoms will last for several days to a week.
With five new Zika infections identified this week, two of them in Miami-Dade, Florida has recorded 113 cases, the most in the country. Her symptoms included a rash, conjunctivitis, and other Zika-related symptoms.
Dr Zhiheng Xu, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said: “The most surprising part of this study is that it was mostly neural progenitor cells that got infected in the beginning and mostly neurons that became infected at a later stage”.
They showed the virus could cross the placenta during pregnancy and kill cells to slow brain growth. A planned Major League Baseball series between the Pittsburgh Pirates and Miami Marlins in Puerto Rico was canceled over Zika concerns, which many officials on the island decried as an overreaction that hurt Puerto Rico’s economy.
The cases announced this week bring the total number of CT residents infected by the mosquito-borne virus to six, the Department of Public Health said.
To prevent Asian tiger mosquitoes from picking up the disease in Pennsylvania, Mr. Quigley said, workers could use backpack-type or truck-mounted pesticide sprays in 150- to 200-yard areas around the homes of confirmed or suspected Zika patients.
Amir Attawan, a public health professor at the University of Ottawa, wrote in the Harvard Public Health Review that the Zika virus is so bad in Brazil that the Olympics should be moved, postponed or canceled.
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A total of 112 people have been tested for the Zika virus in South Carolina, WCBD reports.
