The health department wants all Kendall County residents to be aware that the risk of Zika virus is low in Kendall County, at this time.
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One more case of travel-related Zika virus has been confirmed, bringing the statewide number to 22, according to the Florida Department of Health on Wednesday.
“Mississippians are not at risk for becoming infected with this virus unless they travel”.
Zika usually is transmitted through bites from a mosquito species that can be found in Florida, along the Gulf Coast and in states that border Mexico, among other regions.
Authorities say evidence of a link between Zika virus and microcephaly is “strong and growing”, The Post said, whereas there is no scientific basis for the theory that pyriproxyfen is causing the birth defects.
Gostin, a professor at Georgetown University in Washington, said the World Health Organization should have a much larger emergency contingency fund. He compared the funding plan to the WHO’s initial slow response to the outbreak of Ebola, a virus that killed more than 11,300 people in two years, mostly in West Africa.
The mosquito-borne Zika virus is thought – but not proven – to be behind an epidemic of birth defects that leave newborns with very small heads and potential brain damage. But the CDC is recommending that pregnant women avoid those regions of Central and South America and the Caribbean where Zika virus has been identified and officials have described it as spreading “explosively”.
It has been accompanied by a rise in reported microcephaly cases in Brazil and French Polynesia, but not in other countries where Zika has spread.
The Zika virus has also been linked to Guillain-Barre syndrome, which can cause paralysis.
Two possible cases of transmission through blood transfusion have been reported in Brazil.
State officials established the hotline after Florida Surgeon General John Armstrong declared a public health emergency for the virus, with nine counties affected so far, including Broward, Miami-Dade, Alachua, Hillsborough, Lee, Osceola, Santa Rosa, St. Johns and Brevard.
Some pro-abortion activists have tried to use the Zika virus’ alleged link with microcephaly to encourage an expansion of legal abortion in Latin America.
Zika is transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which also spreads dengue fever.
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To clarify, the ministry said in an e-mailed statement that the government would cease to update the confirmed number of linked cases because “the Health Ministry considers that there were Zika virus infections in most of the mothers whose babies have been diagnosed” with the condition.
