On a sunny Saturday morning, Dr. Karla Maguire helps her mother-in-law get her son’s stroller out of their house in Surfside, Florida, and then goes back inside while Rafael and his grandmother walk to the beach alone.
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Buttars said the woman will receive guidance and instructions from the National Birth Defects Prevention Network, per protocol.
Monday blood work confirmed she tested positive for the virus.
Almost a month ago, health officials confirmed that mosquitoes were spreading Zika in this neighborhood.
“The CDC is giving recommendations for how long to wait before you get pregnant, but it seems like no one has a clear grasp on just how long it stays in your system”, Ehrlich said. “This would eventually happen and we kept saying it, and kept saying it, and Republicans stuck their heads in the sand and here we are”.
ALLEN: Superintendent Alberto Carvalho was visiting schools in both of Miami’s local Zika transmission zones today, spreading the message that students should wear repellent, long-sleeved shirts, long trousers and that they should be in school.
Frieden said it is hard to determine if cases are locally acquired and whether cases are related.
The top Democrat in the Senate says Congress must return from its weekslong summer break to deal with the Zika virus, an unlikely scenario in light of the dysfunction that prevented lawmakers from agreeing on money to fight the mosquito-borne disease.
Students returned to school today in Miami, and this year, there’s a new concern – the threat of Zika. Officials at the Americas Food and Beverage Show will add mosquito repellent to goody bags at the late September event at the Miami Beach Convention Center.
Maguire said her patients are concerned, but not panicked.
As the Zika virus is formally characterized as the first mosquito-borne sexually transmitted infection, researchers are rapidly trying to figure out how unsafe and widespread the infection actually is. CDC statistics refer to laboratory-confirmed cases, so it is likely that real numbers are, in fact, much higher. But if you are wary about contracting the virus in an affected region, avoid sex during the period of time you are there, Petit said.
The majority of people infected with Zika virus will not experience symptoms.
Speaking to reporters at David’s Cafe on Alton Road, Wasserman Schultz said Democrats had warned the situation would only worsen without the aid. Rick Scott confirmed on Friday there was a new outbreak of locally transmitted Zika in Miami Beach that has left at least five people infected, bringing the total number of locally transmitted cases to 36.
We have two small areas, one (in Wynwood) less than a mile and weve been able to reduce the footprint, and we have another area now that is 1.5 miles on Miami Beach, thats out of a state that takes 15 hours to drive from Key West to Pensacola, he said.
“Between our efforts and the county’s spraying efforts, the last thing I’d ever want to be on Miami Beach is a mosquito”, Levine said.
After the discovery of the cases, health officials issued a travel warning for all of Miami-Dade County to all pregnant women and their partners.
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There are now almost 2,300 cases across the nation, including 170 in California as of August 19, the state Department of Public Health reported.
