Zika alert: Taiwan warns pregnant women NOT to travel to Thailand

It can survive in semen for more than 60 days after infection.

In addition, United Airlines Inc., American Airlines Group Inc. and Delta Air Lines Inc. offered to reassign employees who asked to avoid affected areas, Reuters reported.

All of the cases are travel-related, where the infected individuals had traveled out of the country and were diagnosed with the mosquito-borne virus after their return. For the most part, it is not considered life-threatening.

Zika usually causes mild flu-like symptoms in adults. All of these presented “symptoms compatible with Zika” while 94.8 percent of the 58 cases studied involved patients over 18 years old.

Mosquitoes and their breeding sites pose a significant risk factor for Zika virus infection.

The Zika virus, which has been linked to microcephaly, a severe birth defects in thousands of babies in Brazil, is spreading rapidly in the Americas.

“The virus can continue to persist and or multiply”, said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville.

Travel advisories have been issued across the world. We know now, as we accumulate experience, it can be seen in the seminal fluid.

Q: Can the Zika virus be deadly?

“It looks like the virus changed in some way”.

The question remains as to whether there is a link between microcephaly and the virus itself.

Zika is spread by a particular species of mosquito called aedes. CDC is working with global public health partners and with state health departments to keep local healthcare providers informed. He said there have been meetings with mosquito control officials from across the state to discuss strategies.

“We need to get everyone involved”.

Zika virus was first identified in Uganda in 1947 in rhesus monkeys through a monitoring network of sylvatic yellow fever. For the most part, they bite people during the day.

Close to 70 people have been hospitalized. It is because of our importance that we have to do it, “he said”.

This education and training includes more than 300 employees as well as EMS and paramedics throughout Hudson County.

USA Today said 10 biotech companies “are close” to coming up with a test for the virus and another 10 are developing them.

If you’re pregnant and planning to travel to a country that’s been infected with the Zika virus, consider postponing your travel.

“The war depends on us”, she said, accompanied by officials, health workers and a swarm of journalists.

Stay in places with air conditioning or that use window and door screens to keep mosquitoes outside.

Use Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)-registered insect repellents. Athletes who would be participating in the event have since spoken out about the virus and some of them are considering mission out on the games altogether. “With the Olympics it will go a little faster”, Dr. Fonseca commented. This information is done in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

There are so far no recorded cases of Zika-linked microcephaly in Colombia, the government has said.

Question: What is now the most unsettling scenario?

“It is beyond her competence to say that”, Archbishop Oscar Cruz said.