“There’s been quite a lot of research and attention paid to how Zika virus affects pregnancies, what its medical effects are”, she says, “but there really hasn’t been much attention paid to the impact on women themselves and how it might affect their behaviors and options”. Because of this, the CDC has advised women who are pregnant or may become pregnant not to travel to affected countries, or to have sex with anyone who has recently done so.
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The trap is created to collect only the specific type of mosquito a researcher wants to analyze and the company hopes it will help in the tracking of the mosquito-borne Zika virus.
Northern Kentucky’s first case of the Zika virus has been confirmed in a Boone County man, the Northern Kentucky Health Department announced Friday.
The archipelago nation off the northwest coast of Africa had been observing 100 pregnant women who are infected with the mosquito borne Zika virus.
It looked at requests to Women on Web from 19 countries from 2010 through early this year, including eight where Zika outbreaks, government warnings and abortion bans all were occurring at the same time.
OH now has 16 confirmed cases of the Zika virus – the 16th being woman in Lucas County. “Infected mosquitoes could then transmit the virus to other people, so it’s also key that Northern Kentuckians take steps to prevent mosquito bites at home as well”.
Women on Web recommends the abortion drugs be used up to nine or ten weeks of pregnancy, but it fails to mention that there is very little way of knowing at that point if the unborn baby or the mother really are infected with Zika. As of June 15, a total of 756 cases of Zika have been reported across the country – all in people who contracted it overseas or through sexual contact with someone who traveled overseas.
Dallas County Health and Human Services said Tuesday that there are almost a dozen total cases in North Texas, CBS Dallas-Fort Worth reported, but none were contracted in the U.S. But the disease has grabbed headlines in the past year because of the severe birth defects – including abnormally small heads and brain damage – it causes in infants born with it in South and Central America, the Caribbean, the Pacific Islands, Mexico, Cape Verde, and elsewhere, too. Ginelle Jones, a county, said the people who have asked to be tested had traveled to areas where the disease has been present, and had illness symptoms that matched some of the Zika virus symptoms.
For now, there are more questions than answers about Zika and this group of viruses, including dengue, he added.
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“It isn’t enough for health officials just to warn women about the risks associated Zika – they must also make efforts to ensure that women are offered safe, legal, and accessible reproductive choices”, commented Dr Catherine Aiken from the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Cambridge in a statement.
