Petri emphasizes that avoiding mosquitoes is the best way to prevent Zika, and he recommends using lots of repellent.
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“Just a pay a little more attention to keeping mosquitoes out of your home or not encountering them outside”, Weaver says. But the WHO’s guidelines, updated last week, could affect millions of couples who live in outbreak areas.
The virus, which usually causes only mild, flu-like symptoms, can also trigger adult-onset neurological problems such as Guillain-Barre Syndrome, which can cause paralysis and death.
The virus has been linked to a surge of microcephaly – a devastating birth defect that has seen thousands of babies in Brazil born with unusually small heads and often severely compromised brains – and some athletes, journalists and others have expressed reservations about taking part in the games. And with much of Texas appearing like a sponge laying in a petri dish of water sitting in the hot sun, Gov. Abbott for now is urging all Texans to maintain personal protection against mosquito bites while outside.
The maps were created by Swedish researchers who modelled the spread of the virus based on expected flows of travellers, population densities and how suited Aedes mosquitoes, which transmit the virus, are to the European climate.
“The new recommendation issued by the World Health Organization that men and women living in Zika endemic areas consider delaying pregnancy is not inherently bad in principle, especially in light of that fact that we do not yet have other effective means to prevent infection, such as a vaccine”, Krubiner told ABC News.
Three new Zika cases were reported in the state Friday, bringing the total to 175.
Joe Marhefka, mosquito control director for Broward County, said none of the additional federal money will go for aerial spraying, since the species that spread Zika are distinct from the floodwater mosquitoes known to breed in vast numbers in rural areas, in ditches and along canal banks. Pitt officials said the lab accident occurred last month and the researcher has recovered and returned to work.
Later a larger outbreak of zika virus was reported from the Island of Yap (Federated States of Micronesia) in 2007. All were people who had traveled overseas, or who had sex with someone who did.
The number of pregnant women in the United States infected with Zika virus is suddenly tripling, due to a change in how the government is counting cases.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention takes a less conservative tack.
“The mosquitoes that spread Zika bite during the daytime, not around sunset or during the night”, says Thomas Scott, an epidemiologist at the University of California, Davis.
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And as part of a recent video where he answers constituent mail, Rubio read a similar email from a concerned Hollywood woman with an expectant daughter in Miami and “a cousin from the North who’s pregnant and unwilling to visit South Florida because she doesn’t want to expose herself to Zika”.
