Dr Ian Njeru, Head of Disease Surveillance and Response at the Ministry of Health said a health alert was issued a fortnight ago to health workers at the various points of entry to look out for persons with symptoms that could be associated with Zika Virus.
Johns Hopkins pointed out the importance of this research as the prevalence of autism has “skyrocketed” at the same time that obesity and diabetes have reached epidemic levels in women of child-bearing age.
His rallies have been flooded by enthusiastic supporters, many of them young people, but polls show rival Hillary Clinton has more support among Democratic voters who have participated in the caucuses before.
Health department spokesman Matthew Lipani told Patch Thursday the infected person lives in the northwestern part of Virginia and recently returned from traveling in Central America. And even though many booked these vacations before news of the Zika virus broke, they’re...
This week, GlaxoSmithKline Plc also said it was concluding studies to check whether its technology is suitable for the virus. In Brazil, since the virus was first reported around the beginning of the summer, there have been more than 4000 suspected cases of microcephaly. If the...
According to Nielsen data, about 12.5 million people watched the Republican face-off, beating only an earlier debate on the less-prominent Fox Business Network. “If Fox News has no Trump, then I am all Trump”. Those networks aired segments of a Donald Trump rally,...
Up to six out of 10 pregnancies in Latin America are unplanned, although estimates vary. And some insect repellants – DEET, for example – come with a long list of warnings.
That’s lead the Centers for Disease Control to warn pregnant women against traveling to Latin American countries and parts of the Caribbean, where mosquitoes are spreading Zika.
The Head of Wellcome Trust, Jeremy Farrar, made an announcement concerning the Zika Virus. The less severe symptoms combined with more hard transmission should make Zika less likely to scare off potential air travelers therefore hurting airline revenues even less than Ebola. Most...