The statement was posted on the Ministry’s Facebook page.
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Described as a “brand new” virus, researchers are scrambling to understand the very basics, including how to prevent, treat and diagnose the emerging mosquito-borne threat of Zika virus.
Women who are pregnant or soon to be should avoid areas where there are known cases of the virus.
Nor is there any vaccine on the market yet against dengue virus, which comes from the same family of flaviviruses.
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When the Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) convenes an emergency meeting, it must be assumed it is not to discuss trivialities.
Maybe, if that thing is the Zika virus, which measures just 40 billionths of a meter.
Zika does not require healthcare worker mobilization, treatment centers, contact tracing or safe burial teams, said the authors. It has reported around 3,700 cases of microcephaly strongly suspected to be related to Zika. Doctors can face fines of up to 2 million won ($1,654) for failing to report patients infected or showing symptoms of infection.
The Virginia case was confirmed via laboratory testing provided through the CDC in an adult resident of Virginia who recently traveled to a country where Zika virus transmission is ongoing, the Virginia Department of Health said.
On Friday, the Pennsylvania doctors advised pregnant woman to avoid traveling to any of the 24 countries were outbreaks are occurring.
All the cases in the United States, including Houston, did not originate here, the virus was brought here from Latin American countries, but that could change as warmer weather and the mosquito season approach.
The otherwise mild Zika virus is also suspected of causing a rare neurological disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome in some patients, in which the immune system attacks the nervous system, causing weakness and sometimes paralysis.
The explosive spread of the unsafe Zika virus throughout Latin America, producing so many birth defects that three countries have cautioned all women within their borders not to get pregnant, is drawing attention from New Hampshire institutions with global interests. “An infected mosquito can then transmit the virus to other people”.
Health officials in Colombia announced Saturday that more than 2,000 pregnant women have now been infected with the mosquito-born Zika virus, making Colombia the second hardest-hit country after Brazil, the epicenter of the outbreak.
“We need to ensure that federal agencies are working closely together and with the worldwide community to stop its rapid spread”, added Republican Ron Johnson, chairman of the US Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
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Neighboring Singapore has not detected any Zika infections but the government said there was a high risk of transmission if cases were imported to Singapore, a regional travel hub.
