City of Mt. Juliet public safety officials were informed about the case by the Tennessee Department of Health and Wilson County Emergency Management Agency (WEMA) today.
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He said since the confirmation of Singapore’s first Zika case, “within that period of time there’s been an enormous amount. of lab work, of public health work, including vector control” as well as “detailed follow-up including retrospective analysis of cases in Singapore”.
The World Health Organization says the outbreak of Zika remains an worldwide health emergency and the virus is continuing to infect new countries.
Singapore, Heymann noted, has a technologically advanced health system, and has been able to identify the virus early in its spread.
“Pregnant women should not travel to Singapore”.
WITH CLOSE to 10 million Filipinos living and working overseas, the Department of Foreign Affairs has urged citizens, particularly those traveling, to take extra precautions when in Zika-affected countries. The virus, blamed for neurological disorders and birth abnormalities in Brazil, recently reached Africa.
Infections in adults have also been linked to a rare neurological syndrome known as Guillain-Barre.
The Zika outbreak comes as Singapore prepares to host the floodlit Formula One Singapore Grand Prix motor-race on Septemebr 18.
The state has already seen more than 150 people test positive for Zika, with two pregnant women amongst them.
Zika causes only mild symptoms for most people. In addition, close contacts of the patient will be examined if they have fever or other Zika virus infection symptoms.
Both Zika, which is of particular risk to pregnant women, and the dengue virus are spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which is common in tropical Malaysia, Southeast Asia’s third largest economy, and across the region.
High travel volumes from disease-hit areas in the American continent and the presence of mosquitoes capable of transmitting the virus has made India vulnerable to the risk of Zika, according to a new study.
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The city-state’s environment agency workers have been ramping up efforts to eradicate mosquitoes in a bid to curb the spread of the disease, expanding a fumigation campaign centered on the “ground zero” of the outbreak in the eastern suburb of Aljunied.
