The first positive case of Zika virus has been confirmed in Putnam County.
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In Brazil – the center of the outbreak – there are more than 1.5-million confirmed Zika cases, and there’s been more than 4000 cases of Brazilian women with Zika giving birth to babies with microcephaly – an unusually small head and brain.
California public health department officials on Wednesday said there have been six Zika cases reported in the state since 2013, but the Yolo County case was the first this year.
The doctors met behind closed doors and discussed how to provide blood tests to individuals who show symptoms of the disease – fever, rashes, joint pain and reddened eyes.
Officials think that this is the sixth California resident to become infected with the virus, notes the Chronicle.
“No matter how much we prepare”, the statement says, “there will always be risk associated with global competition”.
World Health Organization has declared Zika and the link to birth defects an worldwide emergency.
“The Zika virus is not present in Australian mosquitoes and there is no risk to the community that this condition will be passed on”. “We’re still studying this in greater detail”, Castro said, cautioning that it’s impossible to know what role, if any, Zika caused in her death that the death, which was reported to the WHO.
The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which has been spreading Zika left and right in countries such as Brazil, Guatemala, and Ecuador-among many others-is not native to NY.
To protect women of child-bearing age in Zika-stricken countries, a vaccine will be important because the virus “is a flash infection”, disappearing from the mother’s bloodstream in days, said Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health.
WHO also issued updated guidelines about travel to Zika-affected areas, saying pregnant women should talk to their health care providers and “consider delaying travel to any area where locally acquired Zika infection is occurring”.
There is now no cure or vaccine for the virus which, in most people, causes mild symptoms.
At least one of the two infectious disease specialists will be a woman, Blackmun said.
So far 17 people in Maryland have been tested for Zika.
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While no reports of mosquitoes transmitting the disease have been reported within the United States, there have been cases of the virus found in USA territories such as Puerto Rico, as well as in travelers returning to this country.
