The state’s Department of Health is working closely with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to find out more about the infection now suffered by the woman from Miami.
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Released on July 25, the new guidance replaces previous recommendations issued by the agency and has been updated to reduce risks for sexual transmission of the Zika virus from both men and women and their partners. Colombia has reported almost 100,000 cases of infection, with 21 cases of Zika-related microcephaly.
The Brazos County Health Department and CDC recommends that pregnant women not travel to areas where Zika virus is spreading. It is true that mosquitoes act as the most common form of transmission, but sexual transmission can also occur male-to-female, female-to-male, or female-to-female.
Officials say the woman had been diagnosed with the Zika virus in May, and had made a decision to keep the baby.
That brings the total number of Zika cases in the territory to 65. Researchers are continuing to learn about how the Zika virus infects and affects in the body of those with the disease. New evidence suggests infected pregnant women can have evidence of the virus in their blood for longer than that prompting the time expansion. Six of the cases were in Allegheny County, where more than 135 people have been approved to undergo Zika testing.
Zika is mainly transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, but it has also been shown to spread through sexual contact.
To check if the country you may be visiting is experiencing the Zika virus, check the CDC’s website.
A baby boy with Zika-related microcephaly was born Monday in Barcelona, Spain, in what constitutes the first of such abnormality cases in the European continent.
Officials will stage the second of two clinics on Zika today as new cases of the virus continue to grow.
Since most people with Zika do not feel any symptoms, they estimate that between one and 16 people would feel physically ill.
The current Zika virus outbreak in Latin America constitutes a global health concern after surfacing in Brazil in early 2015.
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He predicted a spike of cases of in September and October, when pregnant women infected during the peak of the epidemic are due to give birth.
