World Health Organization concerned by report of sexual spread of Zika virus

The illness has been linked to brain damage in newborns.

Only about 1 in 5 people infected with Zika virus are symptomatic.

According to the HSE, a man and a woman, who are unknown to each other, were found to have the virus after travelling to an affected country. The The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016, announced new guidance for doctors whose pregnant patients may have traveled to regions with a tropical illness linked to birth defects. “There are only two cases so far, the second one in the United States that we have seen [was] sexual transmission”, Ali said. “We always looked at the point that this could be transmitted sexually”. Rather, it is transmitted when an infested mosquito bites a human, and then another mosquito bites the infected person.

The virus was first detected in the Zika forest of Uganda in 1947, and has circulated in Africa and South and South East Asia but without major outbreaks.

A statement issued by the CDC said the best way to avoid Zika virus infection was “to prevent mosquito bites and to avoid exposure to semen from someone who has been exposed to Zika”.

MORE: What you need to know about the Zika virus Another strategy involved making sure people who travel to Zika-infected areas don’t get bit by one of the mosquitoes once they come home.

Scott said he wanted the state to be prepared for the chance that the virus could start to be spread from mosquito to person within the state.

The Georgia Department of Public Health has confirmed the first travel-related case of the Zika virus in the state.

The World Health Organization declared the outbreak a “public health emergency of worldwide concern”. In otherwise healthy adults, symptoms include fever, rash, muscle and joint pain and reddened eyes. “The patient was infected with the virus after having sexual contact with an ill individual who returned from a country where Zika virus is present”.