Here’s what you need to know about Zika virus

As the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Thursday, the CDC is now advising any man who has travel to one of the affected countries, to use condoms during all sexual encounters with their pregnant partner for the duration of the pregnancy.

The U.S. agency also updated another interim guidance recommending pregnant women without symptoms of Zika virus disease can be offered testing two to 12 weeks after returning from areas with ongoing Zika virus transmission.

· Men who have traveled to Zika-affected areas and have non-pregnant partners should consider abstaining from sexual activity or consistently and correctly use condoms.

“The science is not clear on how long the risk should be avoided”, the CDC said.

The issue is that many people who contract Zika virus might not know they have it. Only 1 in 5 people who have Zika develop symptoms, and those symptoms are typically mild: fatigue, aches, pain, and a skin rash.

In order for the virus to spread, Mickelson said someone would have to come back from an infected area carrying the virus and be bitten by the mosquito within two weeks.

Paulo Gadelha, president of Fiocruz, said the development was of greatest concern to pregnant women, given the strongly suspected link with microcephaly, which caused the World Health Organisation (WHO) to declare a public health emergency of worldwide concern. It was also unclear under what conditions the Brazilian viruses were being shared.

“Not everyone who wants a test will be able to get it but we’re working as fast as we can”, Frieden said.

Infection with Zika virus during pregnancy has been linked with microcephaly, a serious birth defect where the head and brain are underdeveloped.

But the insects are bringing more than just irritation to the southern USA, they’re spreading the Zika Virus.

“The important thing is now to determine whether the virus in saliva and urine can transmit the virus to others”.

DHEC spokesman Robert Yanity said the virus is primarily transmitted by mosquitoes found in the Southeastern United States.

Gavel said more tests need to be carried out to definitively confirm the above-mentioned hypothesis. “Any persons concerned that they have been infected should contact their health care provider for evaluation”.

And while other viruses such as human immunodeficiency and hepatitis can be transmitted through saliva, those are not the main ways those viruses spread, Schaffner said. However, he said that more information is needed on those findings, including the methodology behind them, and the recent guidelines do not address kissing.

National Health Institute Director Martha Lucia Ospina says that all three people who died of the rare syndrome that can completely paralyze were confirmed to have been infected with Zika. The other was the confirmation of Zika in the semen of a man in Tahiti.

However, two travel-related cases of Zika virus have been reported in Nebraska.