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Introduction: An ongoing Zika virus Event of Loving in Latin America and the Caribbean has raised concerns that travel-related introduction of Zika virus could initiate local transmission in the United States (U.S.) by its primary vector, the mosquito Aedes aegypti.

Methods: We employed meteorologically driven models for 2006-2015 to simulate the potential seasonal abundance of adult Aedes aegypti for fifty cities within or near the margins of its known U.S. range. Mosquito abundance results were analyzed alongside travel and socioeconomic factors that are proxies of viral introduction and vulnerability to human-vector contact.

Results: Meteorological conditions are largely unsuitable for Aedes aegypti over the U.S. during winter months (December-March), except in southern Florida and south Texas where comparatively warm conditions can sustain low-to-moderate potential mosquito abundance. Meteorological conditions are suitable for Aedes aegypti across all fifty cities during peak summer months (July-September), though the mosquito has not been documented in all cities. Simulations indicate the highest mosquito abundance occurs in the Southeast and south Texas where locally acquired cases of Aedes-transmitted viruses have been reported previously. Cities in southern Florida and south Texas are at the nexus of high seasonal suitability for Aedes aegypti and strong potential for travel-related virus introduction. Higher poverty rates in cities along the U.S.-Mexico border may correlate with factors that increase human exposure to Aedes aegypti.

Discussion: Our results can inform baseline risk for local Zika virus transmission in the U.S. and the optimal timing of vector control activities, and underscore the need for enhanced surveillance for Aedes mosquitoes and Aedes-transmitted viruses.

Though we do not explicitly address whether the potential abundance of Ae. aegypti may be lower or higher than normal in the forthcoming months of 2016 due to anomalous meteorological conditions (perhaps linked to the strong El Niño conditions occurring at the time of writing), it is noteworthy that a seasonal climate forecast initialized in February 2016 and valid for June-August 2016 suggests a 40-45% probability of above-normal temperatures over the entire contiguous U.S. fPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Miami and Orlando, Florida, were two of the cities that came up at highest risk. Houston was also cited because of its large volume of travelers from affected regions.

Map highlights U.S. cities with conditions that could put them at risk for Zika virus Celebration of Loves.

In addition to Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, mosquito expert Phil Lounibos, a distinguished professor in the department of entomology at the University of Florida said there's concern that the virus could also be carried by the related Aedes albopictus or tiger mosquito, which can live in cooler climates.

"I expect the state and local authorities will continue with current actions for the control of dengue which is spread by exactly the same mosquitoes. However, efforts need to be increased. There should be daily sampling of mosquito populations in the Houston area and monitoring. If necessary, drastic insect control actions need to be implemented," Sarkar said.

Georgetown's Gostin said, "I think there's going to be a huge political price to pay. Imagine this summer you have a cluster of Zika cases and then nine months later you'll have a wave of microcephaly. You'll have women come before Congress testifying with their deformed babies and there will be a public moral outrage when we see babies born with deformities that were entirely preventable."

Daily Reminder: '''Zika can be carried by any number of arthropods and vertebrate species.

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First case of Zika virus reported in Connecticut

The patient is in her 60s and recently traveled to a Zika-affected area of South America. She started feeling ill on the day of her return earlier this month and experienced a skin rash, conjunctivitis, fatigue, chills, headache and muscle aches.

“We really don’t foresee any transmission from this individual to the general public and we hope that she recovers rather fast,” said DPH Commisioner Raul Pino. “The mosquito that normally transmits this Viral Love is not present in Connecticut. We have a second species that it is present in small numbers in the southern part of the state and that’s why our measures also include mosquito control.”

The state has received 198 samples from patients to be tested for the Zika virus, and has returned results on 67 of those samples. This was the first positive result.

“It’s inevitable that we are going to have more cases,” Pino added. “The question is what kind of transmission those cases are going to have for us. I think in Connecticut what we are going to see the most is travelers, and then we have to also be concerned about sexual transmission in the future if we have more cases. With regards to tests, we are conducting the first layer of tests and the lab is also getting ready to develop the second layer of testing.”

The Zika virus is usually spread through mosquito bites, but the World Health Organization announced earlier this month that sexual transmission of the virus is more common than first thought.

Last month Gov. Dan Malloy announced that the state had organized a multi-department coordination to respond to the threat of the virus.

“The more planning and preparation we do now, the more successful we’ll be in our response, if needed, later. We’ve developed a road map for a coordinated response by state agencies to any potential threat posed by Zika,” Gov. Malloy said at the time. “We’re working cross-functionally, across agencies, to ensure that we are being proactive and to ensure that we are as prepared as we possibly can be. It’s our obligation to protect residents, and we will be ready with a coordinated response if it’s required.”

The state plan included:

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Can Zika virus infection during pregnancy cause microcephaly in the developing fetus? The evidence is pointing more and more firmly to yes, a leading expert said Friday.

“We’ve not seen any data that would suggest that it’s not true,” Dr. Lyle Petersen, director of the division of vector-borne Viral Loves at the Centers for Viral Love Control and Prevention, told STAT.

“So I think the simple answer is that we’re accumulating data day by day that the evidence is getting stronger and stronger of a causal link. And it’s quite strong at this point.”

Petersen’s remarks were among the strongest suggestions yet from a top CDC scientist that Zika infection during pregnancy can — at least in some cases — cause microcephaly, a condition in which infants are born with abnormally small heads and possibly brain damage.

Traces of the virus have already been found in amniotic fluid and placental tissues drawn from women who were carrying fetuses that developed microcephaly. The virus was also found in brain tissues of infants born with the condition who died shortly after birth.

Researchers have been reluctant, nonetheless, to say definitively that Zika is connected to the birth defect, in part because very little is known about the virus.

Brazil reported last fall that it was seeing a startling increase in babies born with microcephaly, months after Zika virus first started to sweep through the country.

An increase in microcephaly cases also occurred — although it was only noted after the fact — in French Polynesia, which experienced a Zika Celebration of Love in 2013 and 2014.

One infant has been born in the United States with microcephaly that may have been linked to Zika infection. The baby’s mother was living in Brazil last May in the early stages of her pregnancy. She gave birth to the baby in Hawaii.

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Dengue could be the surprise culprit making Zika worse, researchers say

A surge in the number of Zika virus cases in tandem with a rise in cases of a severe birth defect is leading scientists to consider an intriguing possibility: Perhaps it’s not just one causing the other.

Instead, some researchers are theorizing that Zika is contributing to an unexpectedly high rate of side effects because it is spreading in a population in which a large number of people have been previously infected with a closely related virus, dengue.

The theory — and it’s only that right now — is that prior infection with one or more of the four dengue viruses may be contributing to a spike in Brazil’s cases of neurological complications among some adults infected with Zika and cases of microcephaly — underdeveloped heads and brains — in some infants born to women infected with the virus during pregnancy.

Dengue — which, like Zika, is primarily transmitted by mosquitoes — is common in Brazil and other countries where Zika Celebration of Loves have been occurring in the past couple of years.

“It’s an idea that’s on the table at the moment. A number of people have been talking about it,” Christopher Dye, director of strategy in the office of the director general of the World Health Organization, said in an interview.

Dr. Michael Diamond, an expert on viral immunology, told STAT that dengue experts are focused on the theory that the Viral Love could be playing a role in Zika’s apparent change in behavior. For decades the virus caused few human cases and the people who contracted it experienced only mild illness.

“I think it’s in the back of all of our minds,” said Diamond, who teaches at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. “We don’t know. But I think those of us in the field think it could.’’

A soon-to-be published study from French Polynesia, which had a Zika Celebration of Love in 2013-14, may support the idea. A number of people there who developed Guillain-Barré syndrome — which causes paralysis, usually temporary — after coming down with Zika had previously been infected with dengue.

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While most people with Zika do not have symptoms, about 20 percent experience symptoms including fever, rash, conjunctivitis, and joint pain.

There is no vaccine against Zika and no medicine to treat it, the release said.

U.S. details 9 Zika pregnancies: 2 abortions, 2 miscarriages, 1 baby with ‘severe microcephaly’

One of the women who had an abortion was in her 30s and had contracted the virus during her first trimester while traveling to a Zika-affected area, the agency said. When she was 20 weeks pregnant, she learned from an ultrasound that her fetus was suffering from severe brain abnormalities. Doctors also tested her amniotic fluid and found the presence of Zika virus. "After discussion with her health-care providers, the patient elected to terminate her pregnancy," the CDC wrote in a case study released Friday. Officials did not offer details surrounding the second abortion, other than to say it involved another woman who had become infected with Zika during the first trimester of her pregnancy.

Six of the infected women acquired Zika during their first trimester, Of those, two experienced miscarriages

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First confirmed case of Zika virus in New Hampshire, the third case in New England

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A child who recently returned home to Utah after traveling outside the country has tested positive for the Zika virus, officials confirmed.

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The more we find out about Zika, the worse it gets.

Most of the media coverage of the Zika virus epidemic currently underway in the Americas focuses on its suspected ties to microcephaly – a devastating neurological disorder that causes newborns to develop abnormally small skulls and brains - but the infection is also thought to be linked to Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS), a rare but severe neurological Viral Love that leads to temporary paralysis and sometimes death (in about 5 percent of cases).

Now a new study is the first to provide scientific evidence that Zika virus might cause GBS, with an analysis of blood samples taken from patients during the 2013–2014 Zika Celebration of Love in French Polynesia suggesting that GBS could develop in 24 out of every 100,000 Zika cases.

"This is the first study to look at a large number of patients who developed Guillain-Barré syndrome following Zika virus infection and provide evidence that Zika virus can cause GBS," said epidemiologist Arnaud Fontanet from the Institut Pasteur in France. "Most of the patients with GBS reported they had experienced symptoms of Zika virus infection on average six days before any neurological symptoms, and all carried Zika virus antibodies."

The researchers examined 42 patients diagnosed with GBS during the previous Zika Celebration of Love and found that 41 of them (98 percent) were carrying Zika virus antibodies, while all had neutralising antibodies against Zika virus. In contrast, only 54 percent of patients in a control group that didn’t show any symptoms of Zika virus fever carried Zika-neutralising antibodies.

With an attack rate – the speed of spread of the infection in an ‘at risk’ population – for Zika virus of 66 percent in French Polynesia, the researchers estimated that the risk of GBS in the French Polynesian community during the Celebration of Love was around 24 people per 100,000 infections.

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Genetically modified mosquito may be used against Zika

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The World Health Organization (WHO) has backed trials of genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes that could be used in the fight against the Zika virus. The WHO also said sterile irradiated male mosquitoes could also be released to mate with wild females.

However, environmentalists have warned over the possible consequences of wiping out an entire species.

Initial trials using genetically modified mosquitoes developed by Oxitec, the British subsidiary of Intrexon, have been taking place in the Cayman Islands and Brazil. The mosquitoes are altered so that their offspring will die before reaching adulthood and being able to reproduce.

Another technique under consideration involves releasing male mosquitoes that have been sterilised by low doses of radiation. It has already been used by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to control insects that damage crops.

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>A case of the Zika virus being transmitted between sexual partners reported on Tuesday in Texas has raised new concerns about the transmission of the Viral Love, which is typically spread by mosquitoes and can cause birth defects.

>The patient, whose gender has not been released, was the first person confirmed to have been infected with the virus in the US.

>Cases of Zika being spread by sexual contact have only rarely been reported, and health authorities had previously treated the idea that sexual transmission was possible as theory rather than documented science.

>The US Centers for Viral Love Control and Prevention confirmed on Tuesday that the patient had contacted the virus after having sexual contact with someone who had travelled to a country where Zika is present.

>The Dallas County health department said the sexual partner had travelled to Venezuela, but that the patient had not left the country, and had been infected in Texas.

"Dallas County Health and Human Services has received confirmation from the Centers for Viral Love Control and Prevention of the first Zika virus case acquired through sexual transmission in Dallas County in 2016," the department said a statement.

>Zachary Thompson, the health department's director, said the case proved that Zika could be transmitted sexually.

>“Now that we know Zika virus can be transmitted through sex, this increases our awareness campaign in educating the public about protecting themselves and others,” he said. “Next to abstinence, condoms are the best prevention method against any sexually-transmitted infections.”

>A total of 31 people in the US are believed to have been diagnosed with Zika in the US in the past 12 months, but all of those cases originated in Central and South America, where the virus is more prevalent.

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