Spanish woman with Zika virus gives birth to baby with microcephaly

Sex includes vaginal, anal, and oral sex.

The Zika virus is mainly spread by mosquito bites, but also through sex.

However, it can be potentially serious for pregnant women, as there is evidence it causes birth defects – in particular, abnormally small heads in newborns.

Other mosquito-borne diseases, he said, are hard to eliminate because they’re in local wildlife: a mosquito bites an infected bird or squirrel, and then bites a human.

A report from the Guardian said that the CDC cautioned people that the Zika virus can also be transmitted from one person to another through unprotected sex with a female partner infected by the Zika virus.

The first ever female-to-male sexual Zika transmission was recently reported in NY and a odd case in Utah in which a caregiver for the first Zika-related death in the US contracted the virus sans sexual contact both spurred a CDC investigation.

Since then, health authorities in the region have sounded the alarm over a surge in babies born with microcephaly and other deformities apparently linked to the flu-like virus.

DE health officials announced two more cases of the Zika virus.

The Zika virus has caused more than 1,500 cases of birth defects, mostly in Brazil, where the epidemic began previous year. It can persist in semen for up to two months.

Men are at risk, too, but Zika’s not much threat to men.

Up until now, scientists thought if a person became sick after being infected with the virus, it would only stay in the person’s blood for about a week.

The agency expanded the Zika-specific blood testing to up to 14 days for pregnant women with symptoms.

In an earlier European case, in Slovenia, a Zika-infected mother apparently chose to have an abortion after learning that her foetus showed signs of microcephaly.

The CDC’s very concerned about the risk in the US because half of all USA pregnancies are unplanned.

The later arrival of the virus to Colombia allowed authorities to prepare a public awareness campaign aimed especially at poor women.

Last week’s finding in Brazil may add another, more common mosquito to the list of Alabama insects that can carry the virus.