Houston can count on about $400,000 and Los Angeles County, $720,000, the CDC said.
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WHO executive director of outbreaks and health emergencies Peter Salama said health workers were trained on how to deal with the consequences of infection, helping women manage their pregnancies and dealing with a newborn baby with a brain disorder.
But researchers studying Zika and expert agencies like the World Health Organization insisted the fears were unfounded.
Zika was first identified in Uganda in 1947 and was unknown in the Americas until 2014.
The statement did not say where the other two cases were from.
The virus is now affecting large parts of Latin America and the Caribbean, with Brazil the hardest hit so far.
He added that the United Nations agency had received no reports of symptoms in people returning from the games – although the virus often proves asymptomatic.
An Aedes aegypti mosquito is seen inside a test tube as part of a research on preventing the spread of the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases at a control and prevention center in Guadalupe, neighbouring Monterrey, Mexico, March 8, 2016. There are no vaccines or specific treatments.
The committee warned the Zika virus is continuing to spread geographically.
The patient’s blood and urine samples tested positive for Zika, but his serious clinical condition could be due to existing health afflictions and not primarily due to the Zika virus. It is also not known to the public when any of the Zika-positive mosquitoes were trapped.
As of August 26, the CDC had made more than $193 million in funds available to fight the virus. The current Zika outbreak began in Brazil in the spring of 2015.
“We hope all other countries can do the same”, he said.
Senate Republicans have scheduled a vote on $1.1 billion in Zika funding for next Tuesday, when Congress comes back into session. There’s a high risk that Zika could start circulating in New Orleans or Houston, the newspaper reported. “The virus from these two patients was not imported from South America”. A travel advisory for pregnant women was also announced Thursday for some Miami areas.
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The authorities have issued an advisory for pregnant women warning of travel to designated active transmission zones in Florida.
