Schumer: Congress should return from recess to address Zika
The Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads the virus is common in the tropical countries where Zika is rampant.
ODH guidance to providers on reporting and submitting specimens for testing of suspected cases of Zika virus remains unchanged and follows CDC’s current guidance.
What health officials want to stress about this instance, is that it’s a travel-related Zika case.
About 6,400 cases of Zika have been confirmed in the USA and its territories… Spokeswoman Sherri Willis said it would not provide any information about the location of the birth, the gender of the baby, the family or any other details about the case.
Of the $589 million taken from Ebola funds, $452 million went to the Department of Health and Human services and $137 million went to the U.S. Agency for International Development, said HHS spokesman Bill Hall.
In order to protect privacy, CDPH is not releasing additional details or the locations of the mothers and children. “All we will confirm is that Alameda County has one case”.
Miami, the first USA city with locally transmitted cases of the Zika virus, is bracing for the impact this news may have on its economy. There is no vaccine or medicine for Zika.
The advice, which has been illustrated in an easy-to-follow animation on YouTube comes as millions of sports fans from all over the world prepare to travel to the Games, which kick off on Friday (August 5) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the origin of the Zika virus outbreak. The number includes 55 pregnant women. Some women who contract Zika during their pregnancies have given birth to babies with microcephaly, which leads to babies with abnormally small heads and improperly developed brains.
Forty-one Democratic U.S. senators on Thursday urged Republican congressional leaders to summon lawmakers back from their summer recess to vote on emergency funding to combat the Zika virus, but Republicans blamed Democrats for the inaction in Congress.
“… ‘Our experts at the CDC, the folks on the front lines have been doing their best in making due by moving funds from other areas, but now the money we need to fight Zika is rapidly running out, ‘ Obama said at a press conference at the Pentagon”. Some common misconceptions of Zika are that it’s long-term and that once someone is infected with it there’s a high risk of the virus spreading.
The US “cannot be complacent because we do expect to see more Zika cases”, he warned. “The cases also highlight that pregnant women and those considering pregnancy face great risk to their fetuses”. Without more money soon, she said, the “nation’s ability to effectively respond to Zika will be impaired”.