Scientists are still trying to gain a better understanding of the Zika virus-which the World Health Organization has called an worldwide public health emergency-while public health officials scramble to manage outbreaks without a complete scientific picture of the disease.
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“This means that all suspected cases of Zika virus diseases shall be reported within 24 hours to the Epidemiology Bureau (EB) through the Regional Epidemiology Surveillance Units (RESU) in the country”, the Health chief said.
Egypt’s Dar al-Ifta said on Monday that it is not permissible for a woman infected with Zika virus to abort her fetus after 120 days of pregnancy unless the pregnancy is putting her life is in danger.
There are scattered numbers throughout the East coast state, almost half of the confirmed Zika cases in Florida are in the Miami-Dade County with 30 people suffering from the virus. “People who travel to areas with active transmission of Zika must take precautions to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes”. She had recently traveled to an area where the virus is prevalent, though further details on where in the county the woman resides or where she traveled, are being withheld to protect her identity.
A push for more federal dollars in the fight against Zika. The health department is also preparing guidelines to improve the monitoring of Zika infections and possible complications.
Asuncion added that the RESU will “not just be reporting cases, we also have to report that there are no cases that had been seen in the health facilities”.
According to the CDC, two Zika virus cases have been reported in Colorado.
“I suspect several countries will be quite pleased” by the revision, said Dr. Martin Cetron, who leads CDC’s division of global migration and quarantine.
We spoke with one pregnant woman in Madison who made a decision to cancel her March trip to Florida fearing any risk of the Zika virus. In Europe and Brazil, about 2 per 10,000 babies are born with microcephaly.
Before reaching the Americas previous year, the mosquito-spread Zika triggered epidemics in the South Pacific and in French Polynesia, including its biggest island, Tahiti.
DPH announced this week a Louisville man, who had traveled to a Central American country where the virus is circulating, has tested positive for the virus.
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The new study lists New Orleans as one of nine southeastern cities expected to have a high number of Aedes aegytpi mosquitos in July, when weather conditions are most suitable for the insects.
