This grant will also help keep track of the U.S. Zika Pregnancy Registry, which collaborates with the state, local and territorial health departments to collect information about pregnancy and infant outcomes in cases in which evidence of Zika has appeared. One possibility is that he transmitted the virus to his son through a bodily fluid in a way that hasn’t been recognized with Zika yet, officials said.
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The preliminary findings from the investigation were examined the most recent issue of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
However, she could not confirm a BBC report on Wednesday which suggested a person was diagnosed with Zika in the past week.
The Foreign Office has advised pregnant women and couples planning babies to re-consider plans to travel to affected countries.
“I don’t think we know the answer to that right now”, he said.
Rory McIlroy, who is from Co Down, was among a number of golfers who decided not to take part in the Rio Olympics over the summer because of the risk posed by Zika.
The female patient, 40, was diagnosed with the mosquito-borne virus on September 9 while she was on a holiday in Tokyo, according to the department.
Last week, Gan told Channel NewsAsia that Singapore will no longer isolate all Zika patients, except when the infection is “severe or unless they have other conditions that require medical attention”.
Previously regarded as localised and relatively harmless, a massive outbreak that started a year ago in Brazil (see the chart below) brought the illness sharply into focus because of emerging links to microcephaly – a congenital disorder that can shrink unborn babies’ brains and heads and reduce life expectancy. Microcephaly can cause the baby’s head to be unusually smaller and may even result in death in certain cases.
The study authors said that once a pregnant woman develops symptoms, the brain of the fetus may already be damaged.
The symptoms are similar to other arbovirus infections such as dengue that include fever, skin rashes, conjunctivitis, muscle and joint pain, malaise, and headache.
The World Health Organisation has described the Zika virus as a global health emergency.
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Two more patients tested positive for the Zika virus, bringing to eight the number of people afflicted with the dreaded disease since 2012. That still doesn’t match up with current research on the Zika virus, which shows that it can only be passed through sexual contact or a bite from a Zika mosquito.
