Officials said the individual had recently traveled out of the country and had a mild case of Zika.
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The unidentified patient who has the mosquito-borne virus had traveled to a country where Zika transmission has been active, the health department said.
State and federal health officials will discuss symptoms, treatments and other precautions with doctors and others who work with pregnant women.
Pennsylvania and DE reported their first cases of Zika this week. Mosquitoes become infected when they feed on a person already infected with the virus then spread the virus to other people through bites.
This 2003 photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes albopictus mosquito acquiring a blood meal from a human host.
The Zika virus is spread to people primarily through the bite of a mosquito.
Researchers have not yet been able to positively identify a direct link between Zika and microcephaly, but Slovenian researchers who performed an autopsy on a fetus with microcephaly say they’ve found the “most compelling evidence to date”.
Health officials and experts across the Americas have been conducting studies to understand the virus better.
Babies with microcephaly, or abnormally small heads, can have a range of problems, including seizures, developmental delay, feeding problems and hearing loss.
Leman declined to say where in OR the woman is from and where she traveled.
According to CDC, the most common symptoms are fever, rash, joint pain and red, itchy eyes. “However, we are advising all people, particularly pregnant women, to avoid travelling to those countries where there have been Zika outbreaks”.
“Florida has got dengue coming in, Zika coming in, West Nile is there”.
Stressing that there is no danger to the public, Oregon Health Authority Public Health Division officials said a person in Oregon has been diagnosed with a travel-associated Zika virus infection.
At this time there is no vaccine to prevent or medicine to treat the virus.
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Pregnant women are most at risk for complications from the Zika virus because serious birth defects have been reported in children born to women who are infected with the virus.
