As cases of Zika spread in the United States, NBC News said the country seems not prepared enough for the virus.
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Dr. Ted Andreatis, director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, said the chance of contracting the virus by a mosquito in Connecticut is very low, because the insect that has been the primary carrier of the disease does not travel this far north.
“I think it’s possible that we’ll have Zika transmitted locally here in Tennessee”.
Health authorities in Spain say they have identified the first case of the birth defect microcephaly in the foetus of a pregnant woman infected with the Zika virus.
There is no vaccine or treatment for the virus, which in most people causes only mild symptoms, such as a rash, joint pain or fever.
While still a proof-of-concept demonstration, with the necessary product development, scaling, and manufacturing, the Zika diagnostic approach could be ready in several months for use in clinical or laboratory settings with the capability to incubate reactions at 37-41 degrees Celsius (98-105 degrees Fahrenheit).
“Women who are pregnant should not travel to areas with Zika”. The virus, which is carried through mosquitos, has been known to cause birth defects.
This 2006 photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes aegypti mosquito in the process of acquiring a blood meal from a human host. “So people will think they don’t have the virus when in fact they do have the virus”.
Upon learning about the Zika outbreak, the researchers made a decision to try adapting their device to diagnose Zika, which has spread to other parts of South and North America since the outbreak began in Brazil.
Almost 500 people have been infected with the virus in the United States but all of them were infected overseas or infected by someone who had traveled overseas, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has established a U.N. trust fund to help finance urgent priorities in combating the Zika virus.
The study states that the method of infecting the mosquitoes with Wolbachia will involve inserting the bacteria into mosquito eggs, which then pass the bacteria along to the offspring.
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This revolutionary paper-based sensor system provides a much needed solution to the challenge of diagnosing the Zika virus. That means that, while pregnant women and women planning on having children were already pretty anxious about Zika, parents of toddlers and older children are now becoming concerned as well.
