Low risk in all but 4 countries of Olympics-related Zika

The Louisiana Department of Health has received confirmation of one additional case of Zika virus from another state laboratory.

Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea, and Yemen do not now have many travelers to countries with local Zika virus transmission, so travel to Brazil represents a bigger jump in the risk for them. The virus is spread through mosquito bites.

At risk regions include Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico and Puerto Rico.

The Health Department also encourages people to wear insect repellent with DEET during the hours of dusk and dawn, and remove standing water because it could attract mosquitoes. It has spread significantly across the world since the first reported case in Brazil in 2015.

Because the two North Dakota women infected with the Zika virus did not present any severe illnesses, health officials won’t need to follow up with them, Feist said.

“A 27-year-old Romanian woman tested positive for Zika”.

Without the Aedes Aegypti actually coming, the possible spread of the virus here “relies on the ideal storm for Morris County”, McMorland said. Other travelers are urged to take steps to prevent Zika infection, which can also be transmitted sexually.

With the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil less than a month away, concerns are mounting that the global event may spread the Zika virus to more countries around the world.

There have been 33 confirmed cases of Zika virus in Virginia so far.

Of these 19, 15 countries are not expected to see a substantial increase in risk for importation above the usual baseline for travel by air to Zika-affected countries.

Collection kits were shipped out last week to trap mosquitoes for Zika virus testing.

New York State now has one of the highest number of confirmed Zika cases in the continental US (310 out of total 1,132), while an additional 2,526 cases have been reported in the US Territories-1,726 in Puerto Rico alone, including 191 among pregnant women.

For most Zika-free nations, there is only an “unlikely scenario that Zika importation would be exclusively attributable to travel to the Games”, CDC analysts Ardath Grills, PhD and colleagues wrote in a risk assessment published online today in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Review.