What’s more, there has been no evidence of mosquitoes in Quebec carrying the virus last summer.
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“We certainly have our share of mosquitoes in Hawaii, so that combined with the temperate climate we have and the certain environment, fosters the disease transmission”, said Keith Kawaoka, Environmental Health Administration Deputy Director. But it is not something we need to panic about in the United States.
The Centers for Disease Control this month recommended that pregnant women consider postponing travel to affected areas, and health officials in El Salvador have advised women to delay pregnancy until 2018. Stacey Gorski is a biology professor at the University of the Sciences.
The National Health and Family Planning Commission said on Friday that although the mainland is at risk of the Zika virus, there is a low possibility of an outbreak.
There is no threat of the Zika virus in Pakistan, says the World Health Organisation (WHO), thus putting to rest increasing concerns in the country about the virus which reportedly caused birth defects such as microcephaly.
That’s the reason many pregnant women in the USA are cancelling their trips to those areas, where the CDC is encouraging doctors to monitor a possible link between the Zika virus and the development of unusually small heads and brain damage in infants. Gorski says take this advice seriously. “When, we don’t know”. No cases are confirmed yet.
The W.H.O. announced it will hold an emergency meeting to try to figure out how to stop the transmission of the Zika virus which is “spreading explosively across the Americas”.
“The disease as a whole is very mild”, Nassau Co.
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The mosquito-borne virus is spreading rapidly in the region after being detected previous year in Brazil. The travelers were infected overseas and diagnosed after they returned home. It has reported around 3,700 cases of microcephaly strongly suspected to be related to Zika. There is no vaccine for the Zika virus. There has been one case reportedly spread through sexual contact.
