Mosquitoes in south Florida have spread the virus to more than 60 people and sexual transmission has also been reported.
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The connection between Zika and microcephaly first came to light a year ago in Brazil, which has since confirmed more than 1,800 cases of microcephaly.
“With our rain we are seeing that (mosquitos) thrive on rainy wet conditions and so that is why we are seeing a larger population, it is because of Mother Nature”, Rogers said.
Meanwhile, Malaysian Minister of Health Subramaniam Sathasivam said in a statement yesterday that the country has two new confirmed cases of Zika infection. But his son was later diagnosed Zika, too, even though he hadn’t traveled anywhere where Zika mosquitos live.
Several patients in Northern Ireland have been diagnosed with the Zika virus as the battle to stop the global spread of the mosquito-borne disease continues.
Now, CDC health officials are investigating if bodily fluids in some patients with extremely high levels of virus could also transmit the virus in a mway that has not been previously documented.
“It is still early days to ascertain what the long-term trend of Zika infection will be”, Gan said, stopping short of labeling the outbreak an epidemic.
The disease has been declared a global public health emergency by the World Health Organisation after it was linked to birth defects.
Doctors say they still can not figure out how a dying Utah man gave the Zika virus to his son last July but said the virus may, rarely, pass directly from patients to caregivers.
It is understood a person was treated as recently as last week, the BBC has reported.
An analysis of two cases found that they had likely evolved from a strain of Zika that was already circulating in Southeast Asia.
According to the General Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health, the Zika virus in Vietnam is less infectious and less likely to cause microcephaly than its counterpart in the Americas.
Thevarajan also said that Singapore is home to the mosquito having the ability to transmit the Zika virus, Aedes aegypti, which is the same species that is also known to transmit dengue virus.
Ubial reportedly said that all two new patients showed minor symptoms of Zika such as fever and mild skin rash.
More than a week after she returned from the Dominican Republic, the woman went to a clinic because of a set of symptoms that include rash, weakness and headache.
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The other cases involved foreign nationals – an American and three Koreans who traveled in the Philippines.
