Asked if he was concerned for his team, Mexico coach Leonardo Cuellar said Tuesday he trusted that global health officials would provide the procedures to keep athletes safe.
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Mothers of the babies with eye abnormalities had reported symptoms from the Zika virus throughout their pregnancies, according to a new report in JAMA Ophthalmology.
Zika primarily is spread through infected mosquitos.
The CDC is advising pregnant women to avoid traveling to areas that the Zika virus has been detected due to the virus being linked to birth defects.
The department recommends that travelers review recommendations issued by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention before visiting countries where the virus has been spreading.
However, experts have cautioned that this association is still presumptive because definitive serologic testing for Zika virus was not available in Brazil at the time of the outbreak and confusion may occur with other causes of microcephaly.
DE also announced its first confirmed Zika case on Tuesday, according to the Wilmington News Journal.
On February 1 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Zika a public health threat, and raised the possibility that there could be up to 4 million cases of the virus in the Americas alone.
Catherine Spong, a physician-scientist and acting director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, said the most important unanswered question is whether or not Zika virus is causing birth defects and other neurological disorders. “We haven’t qualified, so talking about Rio right now for me is not something that’s in my scope”, Ellis said. “We’re confident it’s not going to be a problem”, Cuellar said.
Duffy surmised that the Zika virus likely arrived on the remote island via an infected monkey, an infected person or a mosquito carried aboard a cargo container or airplane.
Dr. Karen Murphy will hold a media conference call to discuss the status of the Zika virus in Pennsylvania at 5:30 p.m.
A PREGNANT Queensland woman has been diagnosed with the Zika virus after returning from overseas.
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“The woman is pregnant”. “They’re saying typically after two months it’s out of your system and you don’t have to worry about it after that”, she said. Insect repellants containing DEET (diethyltoluamide) or icaridin, also known as picaridin, as well as mosquito nets, should also be used, the report suggests.
