USA health authorities Friday described the cases of nine pregnant women who contracted the Zika virus while traveling, two of whom chose abortion and one who gave birth to a baby with microcephaly.
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its travel advisory on Friday, stating that women now at any stage of pregnancy or planning to get pregnant over the coming weeks should “consider not going to the Olympics”. Ten additional reports...
The announcement indicates that although the test results on these individuals are not yet conclusive, the CDC is taking seriously the possibility that “sexual transmission may be a more likely means of transmission for Zika virus than previously considered”, the...
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Monahan, who also attends to members of the Congress and the Supreme Court, said that Scalia was suffering from “more than half-dozen ailments, including sleep apnea, degenerative joint disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and high blood pressure”....
The first uterus transplant in the United States was performed by gynecological surgeons from Cleveland Clinic. The clinic said the surgery was performed on a 26-year-old woman, using a uterus from a deceased donor. The woman will have to wait a year if the transplant is...
Two U.S. women infected with the Zika virus have opted to abort their pregnancies, officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday. All got the virus overseas.
– Today the CDC released information about nine pregnant travelers, now in the US, with confirmed cases of Zika virus. Numerous women reported fevers as a result of the infection, which may have affected their pregnancy outcomes, the agency says. Back home in IL, she became...
How do people become infected? She also did not exhibit symptoms of other mosquito-borne diseases, including dengue or chikungunya. The Aedes mosquito can be found locally in North Texas.
The World Health Organization in January declared a public health emergency over thousands of Brazilian infants born with microcephaly – a severe birth defect that causes a shrunken skull and brain – in the wake of the virus outbreak past year.
The Democrats ventured across the street from the Capitol and stood in a brisk wind in front of the Supreme Court building, where they criticized Republicans for refusing to consider any nominee to fill the spot left by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia.