CDC Issues Advice for Travel to the 2016 Summer Olympic Games

Also on Friday, the CDC issued a caution to people planning to attend the Olympics this summer in Rio de Janeiro.

Among the CDC’s main goals is to test every pregnant woman in Puerto Rico for Zika and prevent people like Dominicci from contracting the virus.

While these cases still don’t definitively prove the proposed link between Zika infection in pregnant women and the risk of later birth defects or stillbirths, the CDC authors were nonetheless taken aback by their findings.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have advised all pregnant women to consider postponing travel to areas where Zika virus transmission is ongoing, primarily Central and South America. Two of the nine women had miscarriages and one child was born with severe microcephaly. All four lost pregnancies and the single case of birth with microcephaly occurred in this group of women.

Francois Bourdillon, head of France’s Institute for Public Health Surveillance (IVS), said the infected woman was the country’s “first confirmed indigenous case of transmission”. These guidelines include men who have traveled to Zika-affected areas either avoiding sex or always using condoms with a partner now pregnant.

A total of 42 cases have now been reported in Florida. The most serious risk from Zika seems to be to pregnant women and their developing fetus, Frieden said.

Luskin-Hawk stressed that the overwhelming majority of people who have Zika show no symptoms and make full recoveries. In addition, it said it has established a voluntary registry to collect information about pregnant women in the United States with confirmed Zika virus infection and their babies.

The test, called the Zika Immunoglobulin M (IgM) Antibody Capture Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, or Zika MAC-ELISA for short, was developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and is meant to detect the presence of anti-Zika antibodies in a patient’s blood or cerebrospinal fluid. Two of the women infected in the first trimester suffered miscarriages. Otherwise, health officials urge anyone considering travel to countries where the virus is circulating to be aware of the need to protect themselves and others from mosquito bites.

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“None of those diseases have the implication for future generations that this one does, at least that we think it does”, she said. A news release says the new case and three reported last week are believed to be travel-related.

Roberts also mentioned the use of a genetically-engineered mosquito, which has been tested in Brazil and asked if the United States is considering this technology. We have not had any evidence of Zika spreading in Arkansas.