Health Secretary Karen Murphy said Thursday a state resident contracted the disease while traveling in an area where the virus is being transmitted.
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The PDH added that upon returning to the United States the individual passed the virus to his or her partner.
Pregnant women with evidence of Zika virus: As of September 1, there were more than 1,750 pregnant women with evidence of Zika virus.
So far, none of the mosquitoes in the state has tested positive for Zika, but the human population has not been so lucky.
The CDC said in an update yesterday that 24 sexually transmitted Zika cases have been reported in U.S. states.
India contains Zika’s “disease ecology” – Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes, crowding, poverty, lack of sanitation and hygiene, travellers and visitors and warming that prolongs mosquito season.
Gov. Rick Scott will make the journey to Washington, D.C. next week to demand much-needed funding to combat the Zika virus in Florida.
Singapore reported its first locally transmitted case of the Zika virus on Aug 27.
Although Congress was gone for the past two months, coinciding with an alarming rise in cases of the Zika virus, there are few signs that the deadlock between Democrats and Republicans is easing.
When money is available to municipalities, Greer said, those departments often don’t get a big slice: “It’s easy to see how a local government might say we’re going to fix the potholes or we’re going to hire police sooner than saying we’re going to hire an epidemiologist or we’re going to start trying to build up our vector control capacities”.
Fear of Zika infection is morphing into fears of the insecticide used to kill the Zika-spreading mosquito in Southwest Florida. AP is the largest and most trusted source of independent news and information. Mosquitoes can breed in water trapped in bromeliads’ cylindrical centers.
The CDC has confirmed that the Zika virus is responsible for causing severe defects in unborn children, including microcephaly, which leaves babies with abnormally small heads and often with brains that do not develop properly.
EPA said that larvicides also help by controlling the mosquitoes at the larval stage. The two localized mosquito-borne outbreaks in Miami are “quite hard to control”, Frieden said, adding that the type of mosquitoes that spread Zika “are the cockroach of mosquitoes”.
Frieden said Congress’ inaction has slowed down production of new tests – and hampered efforts to stop recent outbreaks like the one in Miami Beach since the mosquito-borne virus can be “difficult to control”.
Earlier this month, health officials reported that in areas experiencing a Zika outbreak, there will likely be an accompanying increase in cases of Guillain-Barre syndrome.
You can use repellents, as the NBC News suggested.
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The CDC also is advising pregnant women not to travel to an area where active Zika transmission is ongoing, and to use insect repellent and wear long trousers and long-sleeved shirts if they are in those areas.
