Most people who are infected with Zika virus have no symptoms, or experience only a mild illness.
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“It’s been associated with poor birth outcomes if pregnant women get the virus”, says Fulbright.
A crucial component has been aggressively urging people to dump or cover anything on their property that holds water so they don’t end up raising mosquitoes that spread the virus through bites.
Last year, no locally acquired cases of chikungunya were reported, though 73 people picked up the virus while traveling.
State health officials said Friday that a case of the Zika virus was found in Osceola County, outside Orlando, and one in St. Johns County, near Jacksonville.
The Douglas County Health Department says the two Nebraska patients with Zika virus are both women who had recently returned to Nebraska from worldwide travel.
Because of the suspected link between the virus and the birth defect, called microcephaly, the CDC recommended two weeks ago that pregnant women postpone trips to countries with Zika outbreaks, mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Brazil’s sports minister says the possibility of canceling the Rio de Janeiro Olympics because of the outbreak of the Zika virus “is not in discussion”.
“This virus is clearly throwing one curve ball after the other”, she said.
Pour spoke to the media Friday and said women with partners who have traveled overseas should talk to their partners and health care providers. The virus has been linked to microcephaly- a condition that causes babies to be born with unusually small heads and, in vast majority of cases, damaged brains.
“The important thing is now to determine whether the virus in saliva and urine can transmit the virus to others”.
To date, the mosquito-borne virus has spread to more than 20 countries in the Americas.
Zika usually is transmitted through bites from infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which are common in Florida, along the Gulf Coast and states that border Mexico.
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In the United States, industry insiders are preparing for a rise in sales once the mosquito season starts in the south in March or April, then rolls northwards as temperatures rise.
