US Researcher Says Zika Vaccine is Years Away

Deputy Health Director Dr. Lokman Hakim Sulaiman said the move was imperative as it was not practical to conduct public health screenings at national gateways.

Despite the Zika virus continuing to spread in the Americas, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday that during the winter, the risk of Zika virus transmission in Europe was extremely low.

“(It is) most significant in pregnant women because their babies can be born with a deformity of the skull, so that is very concerning.

A health official in Sao Paulo performs collection and analysis of larvae that cause the mosquito Aedes Egypti, which are responsible of the Zika virus. Some of the travel by infected Canadians was to Colombia and El Salvador, said Rebecca Gilman of the Canadian health department.

According to the statement, Cambodia found a Zika case in 2010, but the patient had recovered and since then, no such case has been reported. “In addition, we are urging everyone, especially pregnant women, to check health travel advisories before leaving the United States and to take preventive measures when traveling in affected areas of the world”. That’s a real problem though, because they can unknowingly spread the virus to other Aedes mosquitoes and with global travel the disease keeps spreading.

“Community awareness plays an instrumental role in this regard”.

India is also stepping up surveillance and has set up a technical group to monitor the situation. None are pregnant women.

On Friday, the CDC included the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic to that list.

“China has made huge progress in technologies and acts more swiftly in response to any outbreak of infectious disease 12 years after the SARS outbreak”, He said.

Officials say the patient in Boston is expected to survive – and even though Americans have been diagnosed with Zika, there’s no evidence that anyone got infected by a mosquito in the U.S. Health officials suggests wearing mosquito net and insect repellant to prevent mosquito bites.