The number of cases of infected pregnant women has risen since mid-February, when the health ministry said there were 80 confirmed cases of Zika, including six cases of pregnant women with the virus.
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“And if they traveled to one of these areas, we have information from the Iowa Department of Public Health, so we can get them tested to see if they have been impacted by Zika”, Baldwin said.
Nationwide, doctors have diagnosed more than 100 travel-associated Zika cases since early a year ago, according to the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Identifying cases in New Hampshire is not unexpected, although the most common means of transmission of the virus is through the bite of infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes”. “Zika virus, with the possible link to the birth defect microcephaly, is understandably frightening”. She also advised pregnant women to abstain from unprotected sex with men who have traveled to those areas.
Currently, there is no vaccine to prevent or specific medicine to treat Zika infections.
Zika has so far spread rapidly in over 40 countries, mostly in South America.
The vast majority of Zika infections have been transmitted by a mosquito that is not found in the Philadelphia region. Chan said 4 out of 5 healthy adults with the disease “will not develop symptoms” of any kind.
It’s the second outbreak scare for Queensland state as the carrying mosquitoes were located nearby a man who tested positive for Zika virus after returning from South America.
CDC officials also said they were investigating 10 additional reports of pregnant travelers with Zika, but the Washington state case is not included in that count, said Dr. Scott Lindquist, the state epidemiologist for communicable disease.
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Chief medical officer Professor Paddy Phillips said the man acquired the virus overseas and there was no risk to the public in SA. The best way to prevent infection is to avoid mosquito bites and sexual contact with someone who has the virus.
