The briefing helped offer suggestions on mosquito control and in “determining what actions Congress should take to fight the virus and its outbreak”.
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A Salt Lake County woman who was infected with Zika virus gave birth to a healthy baby in late March, the Salt Lake County Health Department announced Friday.
“No other US airport operates as many flights to and from Brazil, where the Zika virus is now most prevalent, than Miami International Airport”, said Rubio in a press release to the Obama administration.
A local business is tackling the mosquito born Zika virus by preventing the bloodsuckers from nesting in your home.
To combat the possible spread of Zika, health officials are increasing their public outreach efforts and encouraging people to make their property and their community as unfriendly toward mosquitoes as possible.
This week, the Health Department began distributing Zika education and prevention kits to pregnant women.
“Government can’t solve this problem all by itself”, he said.
Miami-Dade’s $1.68 million mosquito control budget includes funding for aerial mosquito spraying by contract with a private company and the U.S Air Force.
Williams said that over the past few years, his team has developed a way to screen mosquitoes for parasites, and was working on ways to detect the dengue virus when Zika popped up in Latin American and Caribbean countries.
“The vectoring that we’re going to do is going to be based on demand”, Gimenez said, “and obviously we’re going to step it up when we have a threat”. In addition to the 60 cases in pregnant women, five Guillain Barré Syndrome cases have been reported linked to Zika. None of the cases were transmitted in the United States by mosquito bites, according to the CDC.
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“So men who have had evidence of a rash, fever, conjunctivitis and joint pain, can potentially shed the virus in their semen for up to two months”. As the disease can also be spread through sexual intercourse, residents are also advised to use contraceptives.
