To date, however, no Zika treatment or vaccine is yet available and the best way to prevent getting the disease is to avoid mosquito bites.
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She added that there have been eight cases where the virus had been sexually transmitted.
“What we are telling people is try to minimize your contact to it. That means for pregnant women, they should be cautious about going into Zika areas”, she said.
In an estimated 80 percent of cases of Zika infection, the symptoms are mild or the person may not even know they’ve been infected, according to health officials.
“Prevention is the key for pregnant women”, said Dr. Heather Bell, medical director for infection, prevention and epidemiology with St. John Health System.
Schumer is scheduled to be in Buffalo to discuss his plans to combat Zika at 11 a.m. Monday.
“What they do is typically they coat it with permethrin, which is a chemical you don’t necessarily put it on your skin … you put it on fabrics and that makes it a mosquito repellent as well”.
The mosquito that spreads Zika, called Aedes, is the same mosquito that spreads other viruses such as dengue fever.
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – A San Francisco resident has tested positive for the Zika virus, the Department of Public Health announced Friday.
In a prepared statement, Marlins president David Samson said that the team, the Major League Baseball, and the players’ union are all in agreement that the threat of Zika is a real one, and that coordination with government agencies like the CDC is important to ensure everything goes smoothly.
Those who work outdoors and are pregnant are most at risk, and employers should take preemptive steps to protect them, the CDC says.
The LA Times notes that doctors there have nonetheless concluded that the cases of microcephaly they have seen linked to Zika are significantly worse than those they see caused by alcohol or drug consumption during a pregnancy.
The mosquito-borne Zika virus has spread across 66 countries in the past nine years, the World Health Organization (WHO) said in a new situation report issued Thursday. The mosquito is more prevalent in South America than previously thought, and is present in no fewer than 30 states.
Zika is a vector-borne virus that is transmitted to humans by the female Aedes aegypti mosquito.
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“We recognize the importance of the trip”, Marlins pitcher Craig Breslow said. “We are in a race against the clock, we are in a race with the mosquitoes and right now I would say that the mosquitoes are winning”.
