Men who were in Zika areas should use condoms

A total of 35 people nationwide have been diagnosed with the virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Besides the Texas case, there are only two other scientific reports related to possible sexual transmission of Zika, the CDC said. Door-to-door inspections have increased in neighborhoods where 12 cases of Zika were previously reported.

There is no vaccine for Zika virus.

He said they also have 448 kits to test for the active virus and is asking for more of those kits as well.

Brazil, where the virus is most prevalent, said Zika had been detected in urine and saliva, and officials there and in the USA warned even kissing could potentially spread the disease.

The scientists were careful to clarify that there is no proof the virus can be transmitted through those fluids, but said people should take precautions, especially expecting mothers.

The new warnings on intimate contact highlight how little is known about Zika, a virus that was first identified in Africa in 1947 but had been considered relatively mild until the current eruption of apparent complications.

There have been no locally acquired cases of Zika virus in Florida, according to officials, who added that none of the confirmed cases involve pregnant women.

“This is not a generalized public health measure, for the love of God”, he added.

“How can they … not offer (women) … the possibility to stop their pregnancies if they wish?” she said. “Don’t kiss, obviously”, said Paulo Gadelha, head of the Fiocruz institute in Rio de Janeiro.

The virus is thought to remain in an infected person’s blood for a week or less.

In a statement issued on Friday, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein said the advice of some governments to women to delay getting pregnant “ignores the reality” that many women have little control over the circumstances in which that happens.

Brazilian officials say they suspect Zika is behind a seemingly unusual number of microcephaly cases, in which children are born with unusually small heads.

Soon after the American media began reporting on the virus, fear spread throughout the United States and the rest of the world, resulting in canceled travel to Central and South America and the Caribbean. He called for laws restricting access to sexual and reproductive health services to be reviewed urgently.