The US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says sexual transmission of the virus remains extremely rare.
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Only one type of mosquito, the Aedes aegypti, could spread either virus in Townsville, said Dr Steven Donohue, the Townsville public health unit director. The birth defect is characterized by a malformed or smaller head and brain and can result in significant developmental delays.
According to the CDC, no Zika related deaths have been confirmed in pregnant women in the USA, but in two cases infants were lost before full-term. Brazil and French Polynesia are the only countries so far to report increases in microcephaly. While it certainly promises to be a useful tool in the Zika fight, it is not the diagnostic panacea that many public health officials have been hoping for. “After discussion with her health-care providers, the patient elected to terminate her pregnancy”, the CDC wrote in a case study released Friday. “It’s a consistent concern, generally for women like us who are so distant along since a options are limited”.
– Two pregnancies are continuing with no reported complications.
Such ambiguities only complicate the already hard predicament pregnant women face when they have been infected with Zika, which has raced through much of the Americas in recent months.
“Probably a lot of women will be infected with Zika no matter what we do, so we need to just accept that”, he said.
Brazil reported cases of stillborn babies without a brain, raising alarm in health departments about the unsafe implications on the spread of the Zika virus worldwide. However, the virus has also been associated with a rise of microcephaly birth defect cases. At slightest 117 people have tested certain for Zika in Puerto Rico, including 5 profound women.
“The Zika outbreak in Brazil is dynamic”, states the CDC warning, which covers both pregnant women and those who are actively trying to conceive. “It’s too early to know what this is going to mean for the babies after they are born and when they grow up”, he said. At present, several countries including the United States are working to produce a vaccine for the Zika virus.
The Zika virus is making its presence in the world more and more pronounced as each day goes by. The Aedes mosquito can also transmit dengue fever and chikungunya infection.
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The territory also issued an administrative order freezing the price of condoms, fearing sellers might take advantage of fears to raise prices given that there’s some evidence Zika can be spread through sex. “We have a 2½-year-old son, my wife and I, and we’d like to add to that family and grow it”, Willis said.
