Local clinic warns patients about Zika virus

But, she’s concerned about her family in Panama, where there are growing concerns about the Zika virus and pregnant women there.

“Zika is not coming up the coast so you don’t have to worry”, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said in remarks to the Economic Club of Washington, D.C.

There have been 31 cases in the US including some here in Texas.

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Peru has registered its first case of the Zika virus in a 17-year-old Venezuelan boy, the country’s Health Minister Anibal Velasquez announced Friday.

However, several senior health experts have claimed in a World health Organisation meeting that the Zika virus outbreak is capable of becoming a bigger global health threat than the Ebola epidemic, which killed more than 11,000 people in Africa, reports The Guardian. Current evidence suggests that the Zika virus is likely to persist and spread in the Americas and the South Pacific.

“The symptoms are common symptoms; fever, joint pain, pink-eye and a rash”. It affects brain development in unborn babies resulting in microcephaly or small heads and brain damage. He said the disease is spread by mosquitoes and is not transmitted from one person to another.

If the warning from the World Health Organization wasn’t enough, moms say news about three people being tested right over the state line has sent them over the edge.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have issued an advisory outlining basic information about the outbreak of Zika virus in Central and South America, the concerns around Zika virus infection in pregnant women, and recommendations.

Because the symptoms are generally minor for people infected with Zika Virus, the only people in any serious danger are expectant mothers. Pregnant women are being urged not to travel to those countries and women who live in those areas are being told not to get pregnant.

City workers fumigate a street as part of preventive measures against the Zika virus vector, the Aedes aegypti mosquito, in Cucuta, Colombia, January 30, 2016.