Sentences with phrase «because zika»

It's a different story for men, though, because Zika may survive months longer in semen.

Things are much worse in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, where federal health officials declared a public health emergency on Friday because Zika is spreading so rapidly among residents there.

In part, they said, that may be because the Zika virus is more difficult to sequence than Ebola, making researchers more prone to guard their rare sequences for publication.

Because Zika has a similar RNA polymerase, a number of labs have been looking at Sovaldi's possible impact on the virus.

They represent the greatest health crisis because a Zika infection during the first trimester confers the greatest risk of congenital microcephaly.»

Because Zika targets the cells that generate tumor cells, it might prevent tumors from recurring.

Because Zika typically has trouble establishing infections in mice, the researchers used animals that were genetically altered so that they could not produce interferon, a key immune system signaling molecule, thus dampening the animals» immune response to the virus.

And because Zika is so often missed — thanks to lab complications or patients» choice not to seek care — it is challenging to prepare for the possibility of Guillain — Barré syndrome, too.

Not exact matches

But, because the mosquitoes were put into action in 2015, right around the time Zika started hitting the Americas, some folks jumped to the conclusion that the two events were linked.

The Brazil Ministry of Health was reportedly going to be passed out to pregnant women at the beginning of the Zika outbreak in December, but that didn't happen because the labs couldn't ramp up production enough.

While most northern states in the US are protected from local Zika transmission because the cold kills mosquitoes in the winter, researchers predict that the virus could be in southern states like Texas and Florida permanently.

One reason Zika is troubling is because it is a cause of birth defects, including microcephaly — a condition where the baby's head is abnormally small — in babies whose mothers have had Zika.

U.S. health officials on Thursday recommended that pregnant women postpone nonessential travel to 11 Southeast Asian countries because of the risk of Zika virus infection, which has been shown to cause severe birth defects.

Airline bookings to parts of Latin America and the Caribbean slipped globally after the CDC issued a similar travel warning for the region because of Zika.

CDC Director Tom Frieden says pregnant women all over the South should protect themselves against mosquito bites because of the risk of Zika.

Don't expect anything else this summer in Rio — even if she says she's reluctant to go because of the Zika virus.

Frieden said battling Zika - carrying mosquitoes in this neighborhood will be especially challenging because the area's high rise buildings will prevent pilots from flying low enough to drop pesticides in aerial spraying campaigns.

In addition, since as I mentioned before that the disease is generally mild, we have no evidence to suggest that infants with zika would have severe disease and because we know there are many benefits of breast feeding, we are encouraging women to breast feed even in areas within going zika virus transmission.

Because there is no known time in pregnancy when an infection poses a higher or lower risk, travel to Zika prone areas is discouraged even if you are not yet pregnant but may possibly become so.

Jason Day pulled out of the Olympics on Tuesday because of the Zika virus, costing golf its No. 1 player as it returns from a century - long absence at the games.

The White House will redirect more than half - a-billion dollars from its cache of Ebola funds to address the emerging Zika threat because the mosquito - borne virus is likely to soon make its way to the United States.

Jennings said Nassau's bill is «unnecessary» because many airlines have already announced they will give refunds, and allow passengers to rebook without penalties, if they cancel trips because of the Zika outbreak.

All 483 cases developed because people traveled to countries that have become breeding grounds for Zika including Brazil, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

But just last week, Dan Kass, the city's deputy health commissioner, said the chance of an outbreak in the city is low because the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transport Zika do not live in the area.

But the two New York Democrats blasted a competing House bill because it would take $ 352 million now dedicated to fighting Ebola, which they said is critically needed, and instead use it for Zika.

In general, examining the potential effects of other flaviviruses on pregnant women and their developing fetuses is difficult, because outbreaks have been sporadic and less widespread than with Zika.

«It's important to have a single test that can differentiate between the four serotypes of Dengue and Zika, because they co-circulate.

The virus does this because, unlike most microbes, Zika can pass from blood into the brain, where it infects and kills stem cells, having severe effects on developing brains.

Pyrethroids have also played a role in the fight against Aedes aegypti, the main mosquito transmitting the yellow fever, dengue, and Zika viruses, even though bed nets are less effective against A. aegypti because it predominantly bites people outdoors and during the day.

Nanchangmycin is a «stepping stone to a new class of anti-virals,» Cherry said, because it thwarts this essential mode of entry by viruses like Zika.

Because impacts of Zika infection were seen whatever stage of pregnancy it occurred at, Nielsen - Saines advises women to try and avoid infection throughout.

«Following this research, we want patients who are suffering from Zika symptoms also to be aware of the cardiac symptoms because they might not connect the two,» Dr. Carta says.

Stewart Ibarra said that because dengue is transmitted by the same mosquito species, Aedes aegypti, this model should also be explored as a tool to predict outbreaks of Zika and chikungunya.

One theory is that the Zika — microcephaly connection previously flew under the radar because there were too few cases to see the link.

Mice normally can not sustain a Zika infection because the virus triggers secretion of interferons, molecules that bolster immune responses.

On January 25 the World Health Organization said that Zika would spread throughout the Americas because the mosquitoes that transmit it are everywhere except in Chile and Canada.

However, Zika's early history remains sketchy, partly because most evidence of its spread comes from blood serum surveys that flagged active antibodies in people.

These results appear only now, months after the peak of the outbreak, because sequencing Zika virus has proved to be challenging, particularly directly from patient samples.

Recently, dengue virus emerged as a prime suspect because it shares many genetic and structural characteristics with ZIKV and is endemic in most of the regions affected by Zika's global spread.

«But if you're in an area where Zika is circulating, you might vaccinate during pregnancy because the risk of Zika infection is worse than some theoretical risk of immune - mediated damage.»

Such immunity could potentially exist if Zika virus infections in the past were not diagnosed, either because they were asymptomatic or because symptomatic infections were misdiagnosed due to their clinical similarity to other (arboviral) tropical infectious diseases.

In their Essay the authors argue that the Ebola and Zika responses highlight openness challenges for effective data sharing and that three major impediments limit data sharing: there are no established standards for data users to credit data providers; scientists may doubt that sharing data will advance their scholarly stature as much as publishing primary research; and scientists may not be able to share data effectively because of inadequate technology, standards, or human capacity.

Just because temperatures are cooling down as winter approaches, it's no time to let your guard down when it comes to mosquitoes that can carry the Zika virus.

Of the 19 remaining countries, the CDC researchers predicted that only four — Chad, Djibouti, Eritrea and Yemen — are at risk for importing the Zika virus because of people traveling to the Olympics and returning home with the virus.

WRAIR is moving forward with the purified inactivated virus (PIV) vaccine, called ZPIV, because it builds on «a type of vaccine that has been licensed before,» said Col. Stephen Thomas, an infectious disease Army physician and a vaccinologist specializing in flaviviruses, and the WRAIR Zika program lead.

And because this virus looks so much like dengue, testing for Zika has remained a serious challenge, complicating efforts to accurately track the spread.

(It is unlikely that Zika made a similar species jump because the virus is already thriving in areas with A. aegypti, Weaver says.)

«Because people usually don't have symptoms, we mostly care about Zika when it goes into the community of reproducing females,» he says.

Because digoxin and other cardiac glycosides have been shown to induce cancer cell death, the researchers concluded that infection by Zika triggered synthesis of the molecule in glioblastoma cells and that this phenomenon is probably one of the factors that lead to neuronal cell death.

But because it is difficult for antibody tests to distinguish between past infections with Zika and dengue, which is also common in French Polynesia, the study still leaves some open questions.