“This might be a good winter to think about a vacation in the Catskills”.
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“That person came here, she had some symptoms and was tested”.
“As of yesterday we had registered 255 patients with Guillain-Barre syndrome, and 55 of them are in an intensive care unit”, she said during an interview on state television.
WINNIPEG, Manitoba Four Canadians have been infected with the Zika virus from traveling to affected countries, government health officials said on Friday, one more than Health Minister Jane Philpott reported a day earlier.
Nearly 2,000 pregnant women now have the virus, Colombia’s National Health Institute said, out of the more than 20,000 people infected across Colombia. It is recommended that pregnant women or people who believe they could become pregnant should speak to their doctors before travelling.
The World Heath Organization has placed Canada and Chile as the only countries in the Americas where the virus will not be a problem.
State Epidemiologist Louisa Castrodale said Zika is spread by mosquitos that live in warmer climates, not the variety that live in Alaska. The Zika virus, which is considered a distant cousin of Chikungunya and malaria, is related to several birth defects.
It was only found outside those continents in 2007 and 2013, when outbreaks were discovered in French Polynesia. As a result, pregnant women are being warned to avoid South America, especially the 22 countries where outbreaks have been reported.
All the people diagnosed with the virus had returned to NY from countries where the Zika virus is ongoing.
“To keep that barrier between you and the mosquito”, Schmitt said.
For more information about the virus, go to the CDC’s website, or go to the Pennsylvania Department of Health’s website.
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Symptoms include fever, headache, red eyes, rash or muscle pain. He was overseas at the time and he’s expected to make a full recovery.
