“… The good news is this virus spreads through the bite of a type of mosquito we don’t have in Washington state, so it is very unlikely that this virus would spread widely here”.
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Brazil considers most of the cases of microcephaly to be related to Zika, though the link between the virus and the birth defects has not been scientifically established. Health officials think Zika might be connected to the rise in birth defects in the Americas, though it has not yet been proven.
The virus mainly spreads to people from infected mosquitoes.
It is not now known how long men who have had Zika infections continue to emit the virus in their semen.
The other eight are still under investigation.
The CDC restated there is no evidence that women can transmit the virus to their sexual partners and that the most likely way to become infected with the Zika virus is from infected mosquitoes. The two health agencies right now trap Culex, a mosquito that carries West Nile virus.
The first human outbreak of the virus documented in the Pacific was in Yap State in the Federal States of Micronesia during April 2007, according to a February 2016 updated paper on Zika virus transmission in the Pacific Islands from 2007 to 2016, posted on the World Health Organization bulletin. Blood samples will help determine whether the mothers had Zika.
A municipal health worker sprays insecticide in a junk yard to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquito tha … Data collection is expected to last weeks, and the CDC and Brazil’s health ministry hope to recruit more than 100 mothers to participate in the study.
The language barrier proved a stumbling block at the training session, with the Brazilians and Americans team members often resorting to pantomime as they ran through the scripts they are to recite to potential subjects in this Portuguese-speaking nation.
As of Friday, Feb. 19, the Ohio Department of Public Health had confirmed four cases in the state, prompting officials into action.
The National Health and Family Planning Commission said Friday that the latest Zika patient was a 48-year-old man who arrived in the city of Yiwu in Zhejiang Province from a trip to Fiji and Samoa, China Daily reported.
Researchers Adam Craig, Michelle Butler, Roberta Pastmore, Beverley Paterson and David Durrheim’s research paper reported there were 49 confirmed cases of Zika in Yap in 2007, and no associated deaths were recorded.
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The virus broke out in South America and is quickly spreading to Latin American countries. “The scope and the size of the children who were presenting (microcephaly) at the same time, it really made it apparent to me that there was something unique happening in this situation”.
