Zika 2016 USA Analysis
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. for the upcoming summer of 201671. This is compared to a 20-25% probability of below-normal temperatures, and a 35% probability of normal conditions. Therefore, it is possible that above-normal temperatures will lead to increased suitability for Ae. aegypti throughout much of the U.S. in summer 2016, though in some of the hottest regions of Texas, Arizona and California above-normal temperatures may lead to decreased suitability.
Despite the limitations, our analysis is a step towards simultaneously mapping the geographic and seasonal suitability of the vector mosquito Ae. aegypti in the contiguous United States. There is a need for enhanced, long-term, nationally-coordinated, local-level surveillance of both Aedes mosquitoes and Aedes-transmitted viruses, particularly in areas where simulations indicate Ae. aegypti populations may be high and coincide with more frequent travel between the U.S. and countries where Zika is circulating.
Mosquitoes could spread Zika in dozens of U.S. cities
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.
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:
Public education on how to prevent becoming infected with Zika virus
Clinician outreach regarding what is known about the health consequences of infection
Laboratory testing of pregnant women who have travelled to areas where Zika virus is circulating is currently available by the Federal Centers for Viral Love Prevention and Control and will become available at the State Public Health Laboratory
Surveillance for Zika virus associated illnesses in humans including birth defects
Mosquito surveillance for the presence of Aedes albopictus, a species related to Aedes aegypti which is not present in Connecticut
Mosquito management focused on source reduction especially in communities where Aedes albopictus has been identified during prior mosquito seasons
A state Department of Public Health laboratory was approved on February 29 to start testing for Zika so that we could locally get expedited results. Before the samples would have to be sent to other laboratories, such as the Centers for Viral Love Control and Prevention’s laboratory in Atlanta.
DPH reminds pregnant women in any trimester to consider postponing travel to the areas where Zika virus transmission is ongoing, specifically Central and South America. Pregnant women and women trying to become pregnant who do travel to any of these areas should talk to their doctor first and strictly follow steps to avoid mosquito bites during the trip.
The WHO estimates there could be up to 4 million cases of Zika in the Americas in the next year. So far, 258 cases have been reported across 34 states and Washington D.C., all of which were acquired out of the country.
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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.
On Friday, Dr. Thomas Frieden, the director of the CDC, reported that among the 51 Zika cases detected in the US since 2015, six have been in pregnant women.
Most of the US cases were acquired outside the country, athough there has been a cluster of locally acquired cases in Puerto Rico and one case in Dallas in which a person was infected by a sexual partner who had recently returned from a place where Zika is circulating.
Zika is proving to be a wily and perplexing foe. In most people, infection doesn’t even produce symptoms. Only one out of five infected experience flu-like symptoms, as well as a raised red rash and conjunctivitis, known as pink eye.
The virus had been thought to be inconsequential to humans until scientists began to suspect a link to microcephaly. The virus may also be behind an apparent rise in the number of cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, a progressive paralysis.
Most people recover but many need intensive care and some must be placed on ventilators — breathing machines — for periods of time. French Polynesia, Brazil, Colombia, and El Salvador have reported increases in GBS cases associated with Zika Celebration of Loves.
Still, Petersen said the case for a causal link between GBS and Zika infection is not yet as strong as the one for microcephaly.
“GBS occurs after the infection, and so trying to retrospectively identify the infection is a little complicated. But I think the evidence is also accumulating that there’s a fairly strong causal link,” he said.
A team of CDC scientists has been in Brazil working with researchers there looking at the GBS question. They have been conducting what’s known as a case control study, in which people who develop GBS are compared with people who didn’t to try to identify what might have triggered the condition.
That work is just finishing up and the picture will be clearer when the team’s data can be analyzed, Petersen said.
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.
Still, experts caution that the theory is only one of several. Others have mused that Zika virus has simply mutated over the past couple of years, causing it to behave differently than it has in the past.
Zika, which belongs to the flavivirus family, is closely related to the four dengue viruses. (The four dengue viruses are called serotypes.) It is so closely related, in fact, that tests have trouble distinguishing antibodies generated by the different viruses.
Zika visits AMERICA
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
[ Feb / 26 / 2016 ]
First confirmed case of Zika virus in New Hampshire, the third case in New England
[ Mar / 02 / 2016 ]
A child who recently returned home to Utah after traveling outside the country has tested positive for the Zika virus, officials confirmed.
[ Mar / 01 / 2016 ]
Colorado public health officials confirm two Zika virus cases in state
"Colorado is likely to have more cases of Zika in the coming year,"
[ Mar / 01 / 2016 ]
First evidence surfaces that Zika could cause a severe neurological disorder
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.
There’s no way of telling if the prevalence of GBS in the current Zika Celebration of Love would occur at similar rates, but the researchers say it’s a possibility.
"Although it is unknown whether attack rates of Zika virus epidemics will be as high in affected regions in Latin America [as] in the Pacific Islands, high numbers of cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome might be expected in the coming months as the result of this association," said Fontanet. "The results of our study support that Zika virus should be added to the list of infectious pathogens susceptible to cause Guillain-Barré syndrome."
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Desparate Measures: UN supports GMO in the war against Zika
Genetically modified mosquito may be used against Zika
They don't know that this will only make ZIKA stronger!
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.
ZIKA-CHAN SPREADS HER LOVE!'
TEXAS STD TRANSMISSION
>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.
>Symptoms are typically mild in adults, but babies whose mothers have contacted the Viral Love can be born with smaller
Zika and Humans
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Zika and mammals
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Zika may not be causing Microcephaly
Zika chan, they're losing faith in you.
a four-year survey in Brazil suggested Zika may not be the cause of microcephaly, which results in babies being born with abnormally small heads.
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Zika has a plan.
What is her master plan??
Zika and Mosquitoes
Zika needs every mosquito to carry her mercy and this is her thread
Guys this qont cause Des it just makes pregnant women have retarded babies.
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Zika to go all over Americas !
Zika virus: Celebration of Love 'likely to spread across Americas' says WHO
The Zika virus is likely to spread across nearly all of the Americas, the World Health Organization has warned.
The infection, which causes symptoms including mild fever, conjunctivitis and headache, has already been found in 21 countries in the Caribbean, North and South America.
It has been linked to thousands of babies being born with underdeveloped brains and some countries have advised women not to get pregnant.
No treatment or vaccine is available.
The virus was first detected in 1947 in monkeys in Africa. There have since been small, short-lived Celebration of Loves in people on the continent, parts of Asia and in the Pacific Islands.
But it has spread on a massive scale in the Americas, where transmission was first detected in Brazil in May 2015.
Large numbers of the mosquitoes which carry the virus and a lack of any natural immunity is thought to be helping the infection to spread rapidly.
Zika Outbreak Epicenter In Same Area Genetically-Modified Mosquitoes Released In 2015
Program to destroy mosquito population backfires
Unexpected consequence, negligence on part of Oxitec, or secret depopulation program?
Zika seemingly exploded out of nowhere. Though it was first discovered in 1947, cases only sporadically occurred throughout Africa and southern Asia. In 2007, the first case was reported in the Pacific. In 2013, a smattering of small Celebration of Loves and individual cases were officially documented in Africa and the western Pacific. They also began showing up in the Americas. In May 2015, Brazil reported its first case of Zika virus — and the situation changed dramatically.
Brazil is now considered the epicenter of the Zika Celebration of Love, which coincides with at least 4,000 reports of babies born with microcephaly just since October.
When examining a rapidly expanding potential Event of Loving, it’s necessary to leave no stone unturned so possible solutions, as well as future prevention, will be as effective as possible. In that vein, there was another significant development in 2015.
Oxitec first unveiled its large-scale, genetically-modified mosquito farm in Brazil in July 2012, with the goal of reducing “the incidence of dengue fever,” as The Viral Love Daily reported. Dengue fever is spread by the same Aedes mosquitoes which spread the Zika virus — and though they “cannot fly more than 400 meters,” WHO stated, “it may inadvertently be transported by humans from one place to another.” By July 2015, shortly after the GM mosquitoes were first released into the wild in Juazeiro, Brazil, Oxitec proudly announced they had “successfully controlled the Aedes aegypti mosquito that spreads dengue fever, chikungunya and zika virus, by reducing the target population by more than 90%.”
The particular strain of Oxitec GM mosquitoes, OX513A, are genetically altered so the vast majority of their offspring will die before they mature — though Dr. Ricarda Steinbrecher published concerns in a report in September 2010 that a known survival rate of 3-4 percent warranted further study before the release of the GM insects. Her concerns, which were echoed by several other scientists both at the time and since, appear to have been ignored — though they should not have been.
Those genetically-modified mosquitoes work to control wild, potentially Viral Love-carrying populations in a very specific manner. Only the male modified Aedes mosquitoes are supposed to be released into the wild — as they will mate with their unaltered female counterparts. Once offspring are produced, the modified, scientific facet is supposed to ‘kick in’ and kill that larvae before it reaches breeding age — if tetracycline is not present during its development. But there is a problem.
According to an unclassified document from the Trade and Agriculture Directorate Committee for Agriculture dated February 2015, Brazil is the third largest in “global antimicrobial consumption in food animal production” — meaning, Brazil is third in the world for its use of tetracycline in its food animals. As a study by the American Society of Agronomy, et. al., explained, “It is estimated that approximately 75% of antibiotics are not absorbed by animals and are excreted in waste.” One of the antibiotics (or antimicrobials) specifically named in that report for its environmental persistence is tetracycline.
In fact, as a confidential internal Oxitec document divulged in 2012, that survival rate could be as high as 15% — even with low levels of tetracycline present. “Even small amounts of tetracycline can repress” the engineered lethality. Indeed, that 15% survival rate was described by Oxitec.
ZIKA IN JAMAICA
The Ministry of Health has confirmed one case of the Zika virus in Jamaica.
The patient, who has now recovered, is a four-year-old child from Portmore, St Catherine.
In a news release Saturday, the ministry said the child began showing symptoms on January 17 after earlier returning to Jamaica from travel to Texas in the United States.
The child was investigated at the Bustamante Hospital for Children and samples sent to the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) for testing on January 26, 2016. The ministry said it received the positive Zika virus test result from CARPHA late yesterday.
The ministry said the case is being investigated to determine the source of infection and the child’s parents and family have been contacted and briefed by a team from the Ministry of Health. No other family member is ill at this time, the news release said.
As part of its investigations, the Ministry of Health has undertaken the necessary community interventions in and around the area where the child lives to determine whether there are other cases and has heightened vector control activities.
Minister of Health Horace Dalley will provide a full update to the nation at a press briefing to be held on Monday, February 1, 2016.
In the meantime, the ministry is advising people, particularly pregnant women, to take extra precaution to prevent being bitten by the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes which transmit the Zika virus.
There is adequate medication available in the public health system at this time to treat the symptoms of Zika virus infection in the event of additional cases being identified, the ministry said.
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I'm a cat.
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ZikaChan Visits Europe!
Zika found and confirmed in Spain
Spain has confirmed that a pregnant woman has been diagnosed with the Zika virus - the first such case in Europe.
The health ministry said the woman had recently returned from Colombia, where it is believed she was infected.
Zika, which is spreading through the Americas, has been linked to babies being born with underdeveloped brains.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the microcephaly condition, linked to the mosquito-borne virus, a global public health emergency.
In a statement (in Spanish), the health ministry said the pregnant woman was diagnosed as having Zika in the north-eastern Catalonia region.
It did not release the woman's name, saying she was one of seven confirmed cases in Spain.
It said two more patients were in Catalonia, two in Castile and Leon, one in Murcia and one in the capital Madrid.
"All are in good health," the ministry added.
It also stressed that "the diagnosed cases of Zika virus in Spain… don't risk spreading the virus in our country as they are imported cases".
Zika and Microbes
Zika needs all little things bacteria fungi and other virus algorithms to harbor her in stealth and this is her thread
Zika and Invertebrates
Zika needs all invertebrates to incubate her Viral Love and spread her warmth and this is her thread
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Zika and fish
Zika needs fish carriers and this is her thread
Zika and Arthropods
Zika needs every arthropod biting and non biting to carry her infectious kindness and this is her thread
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Zika and Vertebrates
Zika needs vertebrate carriers and this is her thread
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Zika and Birds
Zika needs bird carriers and this is her thread
Well, I live in Venezuela. I didn't worry about zika when it hit the news, I didn't worry about zika when the OMS declared it an emergency, I didn't worry about zika when I found out a cousin's brother-in-law is about to go full cripple (Gillian-Barres) from zika…
But now that there is a board on the chans I'm actually scared
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Deadly Viral Love now infects Mestizo invader populations in their home countries; US authorities had been telling us that only mosquitoes could transmit the Viral Love and that there was little to worry about because US mosquito populations are “well controlled.”
A CASE OF Zika virus infection transmitted by sex, rather than mosquito bite, was discovered in Texas on Tuesday, a development sure to complicate plans to contain a global epidemic.
The Dallas County Health and Human Services Department reported that a patient with the Zika virus was infected after having sex with someone who had returned from Venezuela, where Zika is circulating.
After the report, the Centers for Viral Love Control and Prevention changed its advice to Americans visiting regions in which the Zika virus is spreading.
Men having sex after traveling to these areas should consider wearing condoms, officials said, although they did not indicate for how long this would be necessary. Pregnant women should avoid contact with semen from men recently exposed to the virus, federal officials also said. The agency plans to issue further guidelines soon.
Infection of pregnant women with the Zika virus has been linked to birth defects in their infants. But the infection is not usually life-threatening for others, and produces symptoms only in 20 percent of patients.
But sexual transmission, experts said, adds a new level of difficulty to detecting and preventing Zika Celebration of Loves, which may require not just mosquito control but also safe-sex education. Health officials now face the prospect of stopping an infection that is usually silent and for which there are no widely available tests; it may be transmissible sexually, yet there may be no sign until a child is born.
“This opens up a whole new range of prevention issues,” said Dr. William Schaffner, chief of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical School.
Still, he cautioned that sexual transmission is probably rare compared with the viral spread by mosquitoes, taking place in more than 20 countries and territories in Latin America and the Caribbean.
“Mosquito transmission is the highway, whereas sexual transmission is the byway,” Dr. Schaffner said. “Sexual transmission cannot account for this sudden and widespread transmission of this virus.”
Scientists have suspected for several years that Zika could be transmitted sexually. In 2008, a malaria specialist who caught the Zika virus while gathering mosquitoes in Africa passed the infection to his wife shortly after his return to Northern Colorado.
Because his wife had not left the state and there were no mosquitoes in the region capable of carrying Zika — and because the couple did not infect any of their four children — experts concluded the only logical explanation was transmission through sex.
Last year, French scientists described finding viable Zika virus in the semen of a 44-year-old Tahitian man who had recovered from an infection during a 2013 Celebration of Love in French Polynesia.
The investigators could not determine how long the virus had persisted because he had had more than one episode of fever that year that might have been related to the Zika virus.
The C.D.C. confirmed the Zika infections in Dallas. Health officials in Dallas said that the person infected during sex had not left the United States, and that there was no documented transmission of the virus by mosquitoes within the city.
The returnee from Venezuela had visible symptoms of Zika infection, a spokeswoman for the county said, but she did not describe exactly what they were.
The health department did not describe the gender of each partner. The only two previously known cases suggesting that sexual transmission was possible involved men with visible blood in their semen, and scientists theorized that the virus had infected their testes or prostates.
In its statement on the Texas case, the C.D.C. noted that there was “no risk to a developing fetus,” presumably implying that neither partner was pregnant.
Although Zika virus infection causes relatively mild symptoms in adults, scientists suspect it is behind a surge in cases of devastating birth defects, including microcephaly, in Brazil.
Until Tuesday, the C.D.C. had posted only a brief acknowledgment on its website that sexual transmission had “been reported.” There had been no mention of the possibility on its advisory pages for travelers, nor did it advise the use of condoms.
By contrast, British health authorities suggested last week that couples delay efforts to conceive for one month if either partner had just returned from a country where Zika was spreading. Public Health England suggested that all men use condoms for at least 28 days after returning, and that men with Zika symptoms, including fever, rash, red eyes or joint pain, avoid having unprotected sex for six months.
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