Texas announces first local Zika case

By late spring, Georgia’s state health department had relaunched its “Tip ‘n Toss” campaign, a mosquito control effort aimed at homeowners and businesses.

The State Health department is reporting the first case of Zika likely spread by a mosquito to a person in Texas.

A woman from the Rio Grande Valley has been diagnosed with the state’s first locally transmitted case of Zika virus, health officials announced Monday.

Pregnant women with evidence of Zika virus: As of November 17, there were more than 3,600 pregnant women with evidence of Zika virus.

Brownsville has recently sprayed for mosquitoes in the area and will continue to take action to reduce the mosquito population. The patient, a 43-year-old woman from Brownsville, had not traveled anywhere with ongoing Zika transmissions, including Mexico.

Nine out of 83 people infected with the Zika virus in Ho Chi Minh City are pregnant, according to the municipal Preventive Medical Centre. People who do show symptoms have a few days of a mild illness, with fevers and rashes. However, Zika infection during pregnancy can cause a serious birth defect of the brain called microcephaly and other severe brain defects in fetuses and infants.

Through last week, 257 people in Texas had been confirmed as being infected with the Zika virus.

Using EPA-approved insect repellent. However, an estimated 80% of sufferers have no symptoms, making it hard for individuals to know if they have been infected. The patient is a woman who is not pregnant.

Cameron County and state health officials will begin conducting door-to-door Zika screenings Monday evening in the area around where the woman lived. That means if she is bitten by a mosquito now, that mosquito can not become infectious itself and spread the virus to other people.

The Texas health department said there are now no other homegrown cases, but health officials continue to watch for them.

The researchers have found that C10 binds to the main protein that makes up the Zika virus coat, regardless of pH, and locks these proteins into place, preventing the structural changes required for the fusion step of infection.

Texas is one of several US states where Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which carry Zika, are present. All previous cases have been associated with travel.

The CDC said there have been 4,444 reported cases of Zika in the United States and Hawaii since November 23, 2016.