The idea to use Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes to control Zika virus outbreaks is based in common sense.
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“Wear long-sleeve shirts and trousers if you are going to be in contact with mosquitoes”, said Malloy.
The other test, which examines proteins that fight previous infections, does not distinguish between Zika and dengue. Mujica told Patch that she contracted the virus when she was bitten by a mosquito during a recent trip to Honduras to visit her fiancée.
Dannel Malloy, comes a day after the fourth case of Zika was reported in the state and three days after a ct woman became the state’s first pregnant Zika virus patient.
Health authorities are also examining a person who met with the woman in Vietnam between April 13 to April 17 for potential transmission of the virus.
Earlier this month, a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed that Zika virus does cause microcephaly and other birth defects, after researchers conducted an in-depth review of the evidence to date.
The virus may spread from mother to infant around the time of birth. Zika, dengue and West Nile, prevalent in the Caribbean and Latin America, are part of the same flavivirus family, and the antibodies the body uses to fight off the viruses are also similar.
As area temperatures increase and local waterways remain bloated from spring floods, the northwest Louisiana environment is primed for mosquito-breeding season and concern continues to mount for outbreaks of the Zika virus locally. It’s the first of its kind in Tennessee and the Department of Health said it’ll get results faster.
“With no vaccine or antiviral drug now available to prevent infection or protect a developing fetus, it is imperative that women in any trimester of pregnancy, women who are planning to become pregnant, and their male sexual partner follow recommendations for prevention”, Commissioner Raul Pino, of the state Department of Health, said in a news briefing Friday morning in Hartford.
“We had been working on advancing the paper-based platform we published in 2014 toward a more field-ready format when the Zika outbreak was reported, and we felt, given the critical need for low cost, field-based diagnostics, that our approach could make an impact”, says Collins, who also holds positions at MIT and the Broad Institute. Of those, 36 were pregnant women and eight were sexually transmitted. “So people will think they don’t have the virus when in fact they do have the virus”.
Four babies born with microcephaly linked to the Zika virus have been confirmed in Panama, the health ministry said on Wednesday, out of 264 total cases of the mosquito-borne infection in the country.
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“Here we’ve done a nice proof-of-principle demonstration, but more work and additional testing would be needed to ensure safety and efficacy before actual deployment”, he said. Seven of those cases are in pregnant women.
