Pregnant women and their male sex partners should discuss the male partner’s potential exposures and history of Zika-like illness with the pregnant woman’s health care provider.
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US officials on Friday issued their strongest travel warning yet regarding Zika, urging pregnant women to “consider not going” to the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Although the Olympics are still five months away, Brazilian authorities have been drawing up robust mosquito-control plans to minimize the risks to spectators and tourists alike.
Okanogan County Public Health officials are waiting for lab results on a few possible cases of the Zika virus.
There is no cure or treatment for the virus, which is usually transmitted by mosquitoes and has spread to more than 30 countries.
In the agency’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, or MMWR, CDC researchers reported, that two of the 14 cases had been confirmed with laboratory testing and four were “probable” cases.
Microcephaly is a congenital condition that causes abnormally small heads and hampers brain development.
The group further said that the Catholic Church should still value the “beauty of the means of transmitting life through marital relations” even with the threat of the Zika virus. Ten more cases are being investigated. As a pathogen sweeps by a hemisphere, Puerto Rico has turn America’s possess front line in a conflict opposite it – home to 3.5 million USA adults and with a pleasant landscape that is an ideal tact belligerent for a butterfly that spreads Zika, as good as a dengue and chikungunya already common here.
The CDC’s recommendations for travel to the Olympics are concurrent with its current guidance to travelers considering a trip to the myriad countries with Zika presence.
The World Health Organization declared the outbreak an global health emergency on February 1, citing a likely strong relationship between Zika infection during pregnancy and microcephaly.
Now, at least nine pregnant women in the United States have been confirmed to have the Zika virus, and according to the CDC, two of those women have had abortions.
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In its report Friday, the CDC did not give the women’s hometowns; state health officials have said there were two pregnant women with Zika in IL, three in Florida and one in Hawaii, who gave birth to a baby with microcephaly.
