Oregon confirms case of travel-associated Zika virus

Transmitted by mosquitoes, most people have few symptoms.

OR health officials have confirmed the first travel-associated case of the Zika virus in the state in 2016.

Another person in OR has been infected with the Zika virus while traveling overseas. In addition to the one positive, there has been one negative result and four test results are pending.

Health authorities have issued a national alert against the Aedes aegypti mosquito, vector of the Zika virus which might cause microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome. “Additional Delaware lab-confirmed cases are possible, given the level of worldwide travel these days”. “We are working with the medical community to identify high-risk individuals”. The primary mosquito that carries the disease is not found in Pennsylvania, but one type of mosquito that can potentially carry the disease has been reported in the state.

Gwen and Scott Hartley describe what it’s like to raise two daughters with microcephaly, a condition in the spotlight because of the Zika virus.

The virus is carried by mosquitoes and has been linked to birth defects.

She returned to Europe when she was 28 weeks pregnant; testing began to suggest fetal anomalies. In response to concern about the Zika virus, state agencies and other key stakeholders have been alerted.

Queensland Health urged pregnant women to research their destination country before travelling.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that if someone is concerned about the virus, they should avoiding traveling to areas like Central and South America. Earlier on Tuesday, it was announced that a Cleveland woman returning from Haiti also had tested positive for the virus, heightening efforts here to head off the mosquitoes that transmit Zika.

The Delaware Division of Public Health provided new details about a woman who became infected by the Zika Virus, while traveling in another country.

Pregnant women should not travel to Zika-affected areas.

But the World Health Organization was also somewhat reassuring, declaring: “Most women in Zika-affected areas will give birth to normal infants”.

“I want to say that Zika has been with us since 1954”.

Officials will thus not be able to confirm if a Beaver County resident has been tested for Zika.