Pregnant women or couples considering pregnancy should keep in mind the virus has also been transmitted to woman through sex. The cleared area is three miles between 28 to 63 streets.
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Also yesterday, the Committee reviewed and agreed to the WHO Zika transition plan outlined to establish the longer-term response mechanism which delivers the strategic objectives already identified in the Zika Strategic Response Plan, noted WHO. The first case was confirmed last September while the second case, a 16-year-old woman, is among the 10 new Zika cases reported by the health department on Tuesday.
Armentano urges travelers to Zika-infested areas to use precautions against mosquito bites such as applying approved repellents and wearing clothing that covers arms and legs. In which resulted in the local transmission of the virus across the US. The link between Zika and microcephaly was established in May, the hunt for a potent vaccine and reliable diagnostic tool has begun, and scientists have been able to find the routes of transmission.
Brazil, which has seen the worst of the Zika crisis, said Friday that it would maintain its emergency status.
For these reasons, pregnant women – and their partners – still need to pay attention to where they travel, says Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One isolated case came from lab exposure.
New York Times reports that WHO publicly expressed that the Zika Virus global health emergency is finally over. In the USA and District of Columbia, 26 infants suffering birth defects have been born to pregnant women infected with Zika.
Numerous children also developed other problems that have been linked to Zika, including epilepsy, problems swallowing, muscle weakness and inflexible joints. Doctors found head growth beginning to slow as early as five months, and all but two ended up with a microcephaly diagnosis. Since then, the virus has been reported in nearly 30 countries worldwide, and there have been at least 2,100 cases of neurological malformations in Brazil alone.
Zika remains a threat to the health of people around the world.
Zika virus has been proven beyond all doubt to cause microcephaly, the medical name for a smaller-than-normal head.
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“Zika infection and the consequences thereof (…) must be managed by WHO, states and other partners in the same way that other threats of infectious diseases are treated”, repeated The WHO in its communiqué.
