Also, children born to women with positive or inconclusive Zika test results need monitoring to assess their development, the agency said. Houston can count on about $400,000 and Los Angeles County, $720,000, the CDC said. The symptoms of Zika infection are generally mild, although in pregnant women it can cause brain malformations and other defects in unborn children.
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Health expenditure per capita was used as a proxy of a country’s capacity to detect and effectively respond to a possible Zika virus outbreak.
Florida is the only state in the continental United States to report locally transmitted cases of the virus.
He said since the confirmation of Singapore’s first Zika case, “within that period of time there’s been an enormous amount. of lab work, of public health work, including vector control” as well as “detailed follow-up including retrospective analysis of cases in Singapore”.
“According to Singapore Ministry of health these patients have either recovered or are recovering”.
Currently, over 65 countries and territories around the world are battling transmission of the Zika virus.
The World Health Organization reaffirmed its previous advice that there should not be any restrictions on travel or trade with countries where Zika is being transmitted.
“They used the spread of a related virus, dengue, as a model for Zika since the same mosquito species transmits both diseases”.
Zika is spread by mosquitoes and sexual contact.
Singapore, with a “very technologically advanced health system”, was able to identify the disease “very early”, Heymann said. The emergency funding will expand education, prevention, and mosquito control programs, improve diagnostics and testing, speed the development of a vaccine and boost research into the complications of contracting the virus.
But nearly daily downpours, average temperatures of 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit), large green areas and a population of more than five million people packed in a city that is half the size of Los Angeles, which has a population of 4 million, make Singapore a hospitable area for mosquitoes.
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“The data to date has really validated that assessment”, Salama said Friday, adding that he remained “optimistic that the same risk assessment will hold” for the upcoming Paralympic Games in Brazil.
