Denmark reports first Zika virus case

Three Canadians have brought back the Zika virus recently after contracting it overseas, CBC News has learned. “These people have not been hospitalised and do not require further medical attention as these are mild cases”, said a spokesman for the institute.

United Airlines said its giving any customers “who are traveling to the affected regions the opportunity to rebook at a later date or receive a full refund”.

“We must wage war against the Aedes aegypti, the vector of dengue, of chikungunya and of Zika”, Rousseff said through her Twitter account, referring to two other viral diseases transmitted to humans by the bite of infected mosquitoes.

Officials say this is the first confirmed case of the Zika virus infection in a Minnesota traveler this year.

His research on Zika virus shows that the virus has split into two distinct lineages – African and Asian.

Zika virus is not a notifiable disease in the European Union, meaning that EU countries are not required to report cases to the ECDC.

Officials warned on Monday that only Canada and Chile would escape the spread of the virus as it extends its spread across the Americas.

Zika virus has now swept through more than 20 countries throughout the Americas. There are 200 new confirmed cases every week. That’s because Zika virus is linked to a sharp increase in a type of birth defect, called microcephaly, in Brazil.

The kind of mosquito that spreads Zika is found along the southern states, so experts think it’s likely the pests may end up spreading the virus there.

The scientists are looking closely at related mosquito-borne diseases, such as dengue fever and yellow fever, to develop a platform for their work. The company has altered male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes so that when they mate with females, they lay eggs give that birth to larvae that die before adulthood.

At the moment, there are no vaccines to prevent, and no medicines to treat the Zika virus.

Brazilian health officials last October noticed a spike in cases of microcephaly in tandem with the Zika outbreak.

An alert by the Pan American Health Organization was prompted last May after an outbreak of the disease in Brazil.

Airlines are reacting to concern among pregnant women about travel to affected countries.

While no locally transmitted Zika cases have been reported in the continental United States, there have been cases reported in returning travelers, including the first case in Arkansas. Health officials advise using mosquito repellents, wearing long-sleeved clothes to cover as much skin as possible and keeping the doors and windows closed in houses. El Salvador has advised women to avoid getting pregnant until 2018. But he admits if a woman close to him was either pregnant or hoping to conceive, he would go a step further.