Almost 80 percent of people who catch the virus will show no symptoms, which includes: fever, rash, joint soreness, or redness of the eyes.
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The United States reported its first locally transmitted cases of Zika in Florida in July. The woman who tested positive was not pregnant, health officials said.
The two Maui residents are the 11th and 12th cases this year of imported Zika in the state.
Zika is a mosquito-borne virus that can cause birth defects and is particularly risky for pregnant women.
Zika is spread through bites of certain types of mosquitoes not known to be found in Wyoming.
Federal health officials have been forced to take $81 million in funds from various government programs, including the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Administration for Children and Families, in order to avoid delaying research on Zika vaccines, according to a letter from U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell.
Stewart also said public schools, state colleges and universities in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Martin and Monroe counties were informed that the state would provide each campus with mosquito repellent.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is urging pregnant women and their partners to stay away from Wynwood – the first time the CDC has ever warned against travel to an American neighborhood for fear of an infectious disease.
More than 100 pregnant women infected with Zika in Puerto Rico who have given birth have had healthy babies, officials said.
Ilboudo thinks the virus is unlikely to spread around the country because the USA has better public health controls than Brazil, where the outbreak started previous year.
Of the $26.2 million in emergency state funding authorized by Scott, $18.6 million has been allocated, including $5 million for the testing of pregnant women, $3.5 million for laboratories and $3.6 million for local mosquito control. “Every community that has requested funding has received an allocation and we will continue to work closely with them to meet their needs”.
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Burwell announced that $34 million will be transferred within the National Institutes of Health and another $47 million will be given to Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) so that neither has to delay research into Zika vaccines. “This public health crisis is no place for politics”.
