First case of Zika virus confirmed in Rockland County

Female Health Co, which makes condoms for women, said it has been in contact with various health agencies, including the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the WHO, and has seen a growing number of enquiries.

Reflecting concern over potential harm to fetuses, the CDC upgraded its guidelines yesterday for testing pregnant women who have travelled to affected areas, saying even those without symptoms should be tested after returning home.

Until now the Organization for World Health, WHO, considered that the Zika virus poses a greater threat to pregnant women, but after the tree lives that the illness claimed this week, the WHO representatives adopted a much more defensive attitude towards the disease that was, until now, considered to only cause mild fever and rash.

A CHILD who first presented at hospital on Thursday night has been confirmed as the second case of the Zika virus in Queensland this year.

USA officials have recommended pregnant women postpone trips to more than two dozen countries with Zika outbreaks, mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Brazilian officials will soon decide whether to amend the South American nation’s rigid procedures for sharing Zika samples, the Cabinet chief’s spokeswoman said Friday, as officials announced that they were sending a set of samples to USA researchers amid complaints of hoarding.

Paulo Gadelha says that the virus’s ability to infect other people through the two body fluids requires further study.

In 2014, the White House received national criticism for not taking aggressive enough steps to combat the Ebola virus which ravaged West Africa.

There are 25,645 people infected with Zika in Colombia, Santos said during a TV broadcast with health officials.

The High Commissioner’s Office (OHCHR) underlined that amid the continuing spread of the Zika virus, authorities must ensure that their public health response is pursued in conformity with their human rights obligations, in particular relating to health and health-related rights.

The woman first saw a GP in mid-December and was told she had a Flavivirus, which includes dengue, yellow fever and Zika.

Scientists are also evaluating a possible link between the Zika virus and Guillain-Barré Syndrome, a rare condition that can cause muscle weakness and paralysis.

“Other cases (of deaths linked to Zika) are going to emerge”, said epidemiologist Martha Lucia Ospina, director of the INS.

In this disorder, the immune system considers the individual’s nervous system to be foreign and it attacks it. “In tropical areas, Zika and other viruses can spread to non-human primates”, Perkins says.

Zika, a mosquito-borne disease, has been linked to cases of babies born in Brazil with microcephaly – underdeveloped brains.