He said that calls for special precaution to be taken with pregnant women, and suggested they avoid kissing people other than a regular partner or sharing cutlery, glasses and plates with people who have symptoms of the virus. Health officials there reported that a patient had...
The team found that women who had childhood ADHD were two times more likely to be obese in adulthood when compared to women who were never diagnosed with ADHD.
North Korea has brought forward a time frame for the launch of a rocket that it says will carry an earth observation satellite, to begin on Sunday, the Japanese and South Korean governments said on Saturday.
CDC also advises that pregnant women postpone travel to any area where the virus is being transmitted, and that those who have traveled to one of the endemic countries and have two or more symptoms within two weeks of travel should be tested.
As part of the offensive, which began earlier this week, pro-government troops have recaptured several villages near the Turkish border, sending thousands of area residents fleeing toward Turkey.
Until now, cases of Zika-linked microcephaly have been mainly in Brazil and in Hawaii, where a woman who had traveled to Brazil recently had a baby with the birth defect.
An allegation of rape is still outstanding and a European Arrest Warrant in place, so the United Kingdom continues to have a legal obligation to extradite him to Sweden.
The U.N. human rights agency called for some nations to loosen strict laws against abortion and US health authorities recommended men who have visited areas with the Zika virus use condoms if they have sex with pregnant women.
Canadian blood agencies earlier on Wednesday announced that anyone who had travelled to a Zika-risk area will be ineligible to give blood for three weeks upon their return.
The guidance comes three days after Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) in Texas announced that a local patient had become ill with the virus after having sex with an infected traveler who had recently returned from Venezuela, a country with Zika activity.