Los Angeles reports additional Zika case, this one in a pregnant woman

Zika is suspected of causing microcephaly, a debilitating birth defect in which the brain and skull do not develop fully.

Though the link between Zika and microcephaly is questionable, “the evidence for this is getting stronger by the day”, CDC Director Tom Frieden told reporters on a conference call. The case study adds to those concerns.

The Zika project was funded through a philanthropic grant from L.E. and Virginia Simmons, a local couple, and is part of a larger effort at Houston Methodist to bolster hospital-based rapid response systems for infectious diseases.

Musser said that the hospitals started using the test this week on women who are pregnant, have symptoms of Zika and have been traveling in countries where the virus is actively spreading.

During the colder months, the only way the Zika virus is being transmitted to unaffected countries, like the us, is in the bodies of infected travelers.

Six of the pregnant women were infected with the virus during their first trimester, the CDC said.

While many travelers are aware of the Zika virus, Jamie Cane from Jacksonville, is one of the few who’s not letting the virus stop her from filling up her passport.

Symptoms of the virus include fever, rash and joint pain.

The CDC also released more information about cases of sexually transmitted Zika virus. Two pregnancies ended in miscarriage, two in abortion, and another in the birth of a child with “severe microcephaly”.

The infected woman, however, is not pregnant and recovering well while at low risk of any complications, said the French minister of social affairs, health and women’s rights, Marisol Touraine, on Saturday.

Those considering becoming pregnant should talk to their health care providers before traveling to the Olympics, the agency said.

He also said that existing standard protocol for microcephaly notification and investigation was in place and doctors would scan foetuses more frequently if they pick up any sign of it.

At least two unborn babies in the US have been aborted because their mothers were infected with the Zika virus and concerned about possible birth defects, according to the Centers for Disease Control on Friday.

The case of a stillborn without a brain has health experts anxious that zika virus could do more harm than earlier thought. “It is unexpected and greater than what we would have thought”. In Los Angeles County, no local transmission of Zika virus infection has occurred.