Health officials said the baby girl was born with microcephaly, a condition caused by the Zika virus that makes childrens’ heads abnormally small.
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During her pregnancy, the mother was in Latin America, where she was infected, and the baby acquired the infection in the womb. Over the past few weeks, the case of non-travel related Zika virus has been on the rise.
“I am very disappointed that the Congress went on recess before actually agreeing on what they would do to put the resources into this fight”, Clinton said at the Borinquen Medical Centers of Miami-Dade County, asking politicians to call a “special session and get a bill passed”. “Our central mission from the beginning has been to do everything we can to protect unborn babies from the devastating effects of Zika”.
There might be a connection between the outbreak of Zika virus in Palm Beach County and the virus being taken into the locality from a recent trip to Miami, where the disease is seeing an explosion. Miami is now witnessing a massive outbreak of the Zika virus caused by local mosquitoes.
While the investigation is still underway to determine how the Zika virus infected the person in Palm Beach County, the state has maintained that the active transmission of Zika virus has been confined to a square-mile area in Miami-Dade County.
Clinton said she first learned of the threat posed by the Zika virus in December from her daughter, Chelsea Clinton.
The CDC advises pregnant women not to travel to an area where active Zika transmission is ongoing, and to use insect repellent and wear long trousers and long-sleeved shirts if they are in those areas. While officials are trying to eradicate areas where the Zika-carrying mosquito breeds, as well as keeping track of the number of people who have acquired the infection, the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau is anxious about the tourist trade.
Currently, 27 people in IN have come down with the virus, but all those cases were picked up while the person was traveling.
Clinton called for Republicans to demand Congress return to Washington to pass more spending for the government to fight Zika. Zika is primarily passed to humans by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which pick it up by biting infected people.
There’s been three pregnant women who have showed symptoms of Zika in Texas.
“Now we’re also hearing from the National Institutes of Health that their efforts to move ahead with vaccine trials is also being halted or not moving ahead”, said Pallone.
Meanwhile, aerial spraying that began last week rapidly killed adult mosquitoes that ground-applied pesticides could not reach, Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, told the Associated Press.
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According to the CDC, 15 babies have been born in the United States with Zika-related birth defects. The CDC has reported 14 cases of sexually transmitted infections.
