Dr. Kamran Khan, the study’s senior author said that countries with little amount of resources, should start early to plan for an equitable use of their resources. Other isolated cases not linked to travel outside the US also have been confirmed elsewhere in Miami-Dade county, as well as in neighboring counties and in the Tampa Bay area, totaling 47 for the state. A woman tested positive for the mosquito-borne virus after she visited neighbouring Singapore.
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“Many countries across Africa and Asia-Pacific may be vulnerable to Zika virus outbreaks, with India, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Nigeria, Vietnam, Pakistan, and Bangladesh expected to be at greatest risk of Zika virus transmission”.
In a press conference, the DOH’s Bureau of Quarantine said overseas Filipino workers from Singapore, Malaysia, Hongkong, Indonesia, and Thailand are especially being monitored.
Health officials today (sept 2) began screening patients arriving at government hospitals across Phuket for people infected with the Zika virus.
Her daughter in Singapore tested positive for Zika on Tuesday.
The World Health Organization said Friday Sept. 2, 2016, that the outbreak of Zika remains an worldwide health emergency and noted the virus is continuing to infect new countries. “And Zika is beginning to spread, continuing to cause outbreaks in many countries around the world”, Mr Heymann told a news conference.
Zika is primarily transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, and also by sexual contact.
Two weeks later, Zika surfaced in Miami Beach when health officials confirmed five people were infected in South Beach, the vibrant community across Biscayne Bay from the rest of Miami. A pregnant woman was among the victims, they said.
Taman Puncak Jalil Residents Association chairman Zainuddin Zainal said local authorities and the health department should be more aggressive in monitoring and carrying out cleaning work in residential areas.
To date, Zika has infected people in 72 countries and territories since 2007, with 69 reporting cases since 2015.
Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) yesterday said Bangladesh does not have any reason to be anxious about Zika virus. But in pregnant women, it can cause microcephaly, a deformation in which babies are born with abnormally small brains and heads.
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Although the Zika virus was first identified in Uganda in 1947, and India found that a significant number of people had been exposed to it in 1952, few cases were reported until an isolated outbreak in 2007 in Micronesia, and then another, larger outbreak in Polynesia in 2013.
