US officials said they don’t expect to see a Zika epidemic in the United States similar to those in Latin America.
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Champaign County has been laying mosquito traps provided by the state for weeks, Webb said, but hasn’t captured numerous pests.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recommending pregnant women avoid travel to the Wynwood neighborhood near Miami, Florida.
Florida has the capacity to test only 5,941 people for active Zika virus and 1,613 for Zika antibodies, health officials said.
Georgia’s first documented case of Zika came in February, when a person traveling from Colombia brought the virus to Georgia.
So far, the almost 1,700 Zika infections reported in the United States have mostly been linked to travel to countries with Zika outbreaks in Latin America or the Caribbean. The CDC says this type of mosquito is an aggressive day biter, but also known to bite at night.
Gov. Rick Scott criticized the federal government’s lack of response to the Zika virus Wednesday, expressing frustration that federal money went to studies like how to get truck drivers in shape and not to states like Florida combating the virus.
Rios recommends women who are having intercourse while pregnant to use condoms for the duration of their pregnancies. The virus has been linked to miscarriages and severe birth defects.
“What we have is the Aedes albopictus, which is also an aggressive biter”, he said during his presentation of the “Zika Virus, Prevention and Control of Mosquitoes” report.
“We recognize that any options that involve moving resources from other parts of your budget require raiding other vital work that is being done at your department”, they wrote.
As Zika virus continues to infect Americans, with a total of 1,825 cases reported so far, health officials in at-risk areas like Miami, Florida encourage the public to be aware of the first signs of infection. Infants born to mothers with confirmed infections will be monitored for one year.
More than a dozen non-travel related Zika cases were discovered in Miami-Dade County, according to the Associated Press.
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Serious, but rare, complications include abnormal brain development in a baby whose pregnant mother is infected. Instead, Miami-Dade is encouraging the “aggressive application” of insect repellent at home before school. A month later, she dispatched two of her aides to Puerto Rico, where hundreds of cases have been detected, to meet with medical professionals. While the majority of the cases have been caused because of traveling to affected areas, two of the cases from Broward County have been caused locally.
