The state said Wednesday that an Ingham County woman contracted the virus while traveling in a country where it is transmitted and experienced symptoms consistent with the disease after returning to MI.
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The health department said it tested several pregnant women who had traveled to countries where the virus is spreading.
Queensland health authorities have started spraying mosquitoes around a Rockhampton hotel after a confirmed case of the imported Zika virus.
In response to the virus outbreak, the CDC is asking ob-gyns to review fetal ultrasounds and do maternal testing for any pregnant woman who has traveled to one of the roughly 30 countries where Zika is active, according to CNN.
Dr. Wells says pregnant women are most at risk for complications from the Zika virus.
The CDC is investigating 14 cases this week in which the Zika virus may have been transmitted via sex instead of a mosquito bite.
Microcephaly is a neurological disorder that results in babies born with abnormally small heads, causing severe developmental issues and sometimes death.
The virus present in the semen remain until at least a month after infection.
We already knew that the Zika virus, which is causing major panic among global health officials, could potentially be transmitted via sex (here are 7 Things You Should Know About The Zika Virus). “The symptoms of Zika virus are very mild, very self-limiting, people recover without incident, that’s pretty much the course of things”, Vail said. “One case involves a Dallas County resident who had sexual contact with someone who acquired the Zika infection while traveling overseas”.
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Mosquito-borne Zika outbreaks have erupted across most of Latin America and the Caribbean in the previous year. The WHO had previously warned that the virus’s spread could be “explosive”, infecting up to four million people. An estimated 80 per cent of people infected have no symptoms, making it hard for pregnant women to know whether they have been infected. The CDC on Tuesday expanded its Zika travel advisory to two more places – the Marshall Islands, and Trinidad and Tobago. Florida has the highest number of cases at 21. Officials said tests confirmed the women “had a history with the virus”.
