The Centers for Disease Control reports there have been 1,658 cases of the Zika virus this year. The CDC had already issued travel warnings for foreign countries and USA territories where Zika has spread.
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Fifteen people have become infected with Zika in Miami’s Wynwood arts district, officials said Tuesday. Researchers have been rushing to create one for Zika due to the urgency of the epidemic, which is blamed for a surge in birth defects in Brazil and other countries.
The New Mexico Department of Health received $400,000 from the federal government to monitor and battle the Zika virus Wednesday. Adding to these statistics, Florida Governor Rick Scott announced on Monday that the number of identified cases in Miami had jumped by 10 to 14.
Question: What anti-mosquito measures are local officials taking? “But ethnically, we felt it was the right thing to do”, she said.
For the past two weeks the Knox County Health Department have been setting traps for the Aedes mosquito, a genus of mosquito that is fairly common throughout the state, but until now has not been actively trapped and studied.
A Zika Virus Information Hotline is open for Florida residents and visitors, as well as anyone planning on traveling to Florida in the near future. If a pregnant woman’s sexual partner has traveled to an area with active Zika spread, he or she should use protection throughout the pregnancy. “So we want to address the problem where we don’t have to use pesticides and we do that through habitat modification, using and monitoring mosquito fish and larvicide”, Harrison said. “I think I would be more anxious about West Nile than Zika right now, but the potential is there”. Zika infections in pregnant women can cause severe brain-related birth defects. Wear insect repellent; remove standing water around your home where mosquitoes can lay eggs; make sure windows and doors are properly screened; when outside in mosquito season, wear long-sleeved shirts and long trousers. “The Zika mosquitoes would be ones that would be backyard-breeding, container-breeding mosquitoes”.
The virus is spread primarily through the mosquito bites of a species that isn’t found in Montana.
Since July 27 there have been 1,658 confirmed cases of Zika virus in the United States and nearly all of those were travel related. “Today, the news is Zika”. This is the first time the CDC has warned people not to travel to an American neighborhood for fear of catching an infectious disease, according to agency spokesman Tom Skinner.
“It is frustrating to spend a lot of time avoiding mosquitoes”, said Maguire, a physician at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, noting the discomfort of wearing long sleeves during Florida’s steamy summer.
Thirty-three United States military service members, including one pregnant woman, have been diagnosed as having Zika virus infection, according to the Pentagon.
“I looked up the symptoms online after I heard that Wynwood is ground zero for Zika”.
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