Continental US Saw First Zika Related Death In Utah

As of July 7, no cases of locally transmitted, mosquito-borne Zika have been reported in the continental United States.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported at least 1,133 cases of Zika infections within the U.S. Virtually all were cases where a person traveled outside the U.S. and became infected by mosquitoes aboard.

The Department of Public Health said Thursday that the majority of people in CT who contracted the Zika virus had recently traveled to the Dominican Republic.

The registry compiles poor outcomes of pregnancies with laboratory evidence of possible Zika virus infection in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. She was elderly and had an underlying health condition, according to a statement on the Salt Lake County Health Department’s Facebook page.

The unidentified Salt Lake County resident contracted the virus while traveling overseas to an area with a Zika outbreak, health officials said.

Symptoms of Zika include a fever, rash and joint pain. Two of the cases involve pregnant women, whose conditions have not been released.

In the first travel confirmed case of Zika, health officials would not disclose which Country the Fresno woman traveled to, only that she traveled there within the last three weeks.

Zika is transmitted primarily through the bite of an infected aedes species mosquito, which bites during the daytime. If the number of people infected gets worse, the state may ask health departments to test local mosquitoes for the presence of the Zika virus.

The initiative follows Northern Kentucky’s first case of Zika, confirmed on June 24.

There is not now a vaccine for Zika virus. The disease has been linked to birth defects, so pregant women or women thinking about becoming pregnant should avoid Zika-infected areas.

“There is no risk of local transmission as a result of this one individual”, he said, noting that health officials advised the individual on how to prevent it from being transmitted in any way.

With Guillain-Barre, the body’s immune system attacks part of the peripheral nervous system, sometimes causing partial paralysis.

According to the CDC, babies with microcephaly often have smaller head sizes and brains that might not have developed properly.