According to the new guidelines pregnant women whose partners have traveled to countries where Zika virus is spreading should either not have sex or use condoms until one of two things occurs: The man tests negative for zika, or the woman delivers her baby.
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Box Zika virus can migrate between humans The alert issued by health department says that Zika virus can migrate between humans through sexual contact and it can also cross the plecenta, affecting an unborn fetus.
But, many Brazilians say they are inured to the vagaries of a boom-and-bust economy, unfazed by the near constant stream of corruption scandals and have long lived amid outbreaks of dengue, another virus transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads Zika.
However, Florida’s history of fighting off mosquito-borne outbreaks puts the state in perhaps better position than most when it comes to the Zika virus. Door-to-door inspections have increased in neighborhoods where cases of Zika were reported.
“They can transmit the virus to mosquitoes that then pass the virus on to someone else”. The virus has also been linked to a potentially paralysing nerve disorder called Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Five people have been confirmed to have the Zika virus in Australia this year, all of whom were infected overseas.
Norte de Santander, along the eastern border with Venezuela, also had the highest number of pregnant women with Zika – almost 31 percent of total cases.
President Barack Obama’s allies in the Senate are urging him to ramp up the government’s response to the outbreak of the Zika virus in the Americas and the potential for its widening spread in the United States.
Head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Anthony Fauci said, “I think we need to be careful that don’t we jump to any conclusions about transmissibility”, NPR reported.
Scientists at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazil’s leading medical research institution, said in a statement that they had observed for the first time “the destruction or modification of cells provoked by Zika, which proved viral activity”.
Briand, asked about several suspected cases of Zika spread by sex or by blood transfusion, said mosquitoes remained the “main route”.
Ospina says the cases confirm that Zika can cause deaths – though most global experts are still cautious about whether Zika can trigger Guillain-Barre.
The discovery, they said, amounts to “new paradigms for the understanding of transmission routes of the Zika virus”.
State health officials said starting Monday it will hold daily briefings about Zika. Another 21 cases have been reported in the US territories of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.
One of the US’ top doctors, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said yesterday the suspected link appears “stronger and stronger” as researchers study whether there is a causal connection.
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Brazil, the country hardest hit by Zika, is grappling with the virus even as it prepares to host the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in August. Zika normally causes mild flu-like symptoms and a rash, or goes unnoticed altogether.
