Sentences with phrase «zika cases»

Lisbeth Vindas of the Costa Rican National Surf team rides a wave at Jacó, where a recent uptick in Zika cases may threaten the World Surfing Games in August.

Here's a helpful breakdown of the number of Zika cases by state.

The number of Zika cases there now total 10,690, 1,035 of those being pregnant women.

There have been more than 1,400 confirmed Zika cases in the United States, but so far all of them have been contracted through travel abroad — either by a mosquito bite or by sexual intercourse with someone who had traveled to a Zika - infected area.

The study can't prove cause - and - effect, but as Zika cases increase, health officials need to plan to deal with the rise in cases of Guillain - Barre syndrome as well, he said.

As of Jan. 25, there were 4,930 Zika cases confirmed in the United States, including 1,347 pregnant women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Rio also happens to be far from the epicenter of the Zika outbreak in northeastern Brazil (where most of the confirmed Zika cases originated).

Prior to late - July confirmation of U.S. Zika cases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Thomas Frieden warned: «Make no mistake: The Zika virus is an emergency that we need to address.»

Of nearly 30,000 Zika cases in Puerto Rico from November 2015 to October 2016, 63 percent were female, the...

Other Zika cases have undoubtedly been missed altogether, scientists say.

However, they did find a correlation between the drop in birth rates and the number of Zika cases recorded about 40 weeks earlier — the length of a pregnancy.

Though the downtick in Zika cases is evidence of herd immunity, whether a person's past infection leads to lifelong immunity is unknown.

Prior to this, there were only a handful of Zika cases in the whole country.»

«We noticed a huge spike in Zika cases where the earthquake occurred.

In Puerto Rico, Zika cases hit nearly 35,000 in 2016, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.

Warmer temperatures and increased rainfall from the El Niño, along with a devastated infrastructure and an influx of people into larger cities, likely caused the spike in Zika cases, Sorensen said.

«Climate change may accelerate infectious disease outbreaks, say researchers: Study of natural disaster in Ecuador showed 12-fold increase in Zika cases.»

To protect patient privacy the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention declined to provide the locations of Zika cases in the U.S. but that information is available from state health departments.

Scientific American will continue to update them as more U.S. Zika cases are confirmed and their histories evolve.

Other sources have indicated that there were no Zika cases reported during the Rio Olympics.

Difficulties tallying Zika cases are more than a matter of inaccurate paperwork.

In fact, only 14 Zika cases had ever been described in the medical literature until an explosive outbreak occurred in 2007 on Yap, an island in the Federated States of Micronesia, where it had never been seen before.

Now, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are steeling themselves for many more Zika cases.

«It is important to test all mosquitoes collected in areas with a high number of Zika cases for Zika RNA, and if the mosquitoes are positive for Zika RNA they must be tested for live Zika virus prior to transport or use in a laboratory for experiments.»

In this study, the authors describe a computer model that can be used to calculate the probability that the presence of two Zika cases in a given area will lead to an epidemic, based on real - time simulations of all the counties in the state of Texas.

Lauren Castro, co-lead author and PhD student at The University of Texas at Austin, said: «The CDC's recommendation to intervene following two reported Zika cases should ensure early action everywhere, even though Zika epidemic risk can vary enormously, even within a single state.

May 2015: Brazil confirms locally acquired Zika cases, the first time the disease has been found in South America.

But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's decision, announced August 5, covers only a specific, preliminary test release of GM mosquitoes on Key Haven in the Florida Keys, where no locally transmitted Zika cases have been reported.

The number of Zika cases in the Western Hemisphere has dropped this year, but the need for basic scientific and public health research on the virus remains strong.

In New York, there have been 114 Zika cases.

There have been 42 cases of non-travel related Zika cases in Florida since the July 29 outbreak in Wynwood.

New York continues to lead the nation in Zika cases, with 811 people testing positive for the mosquito - borne virus, according to figures released Friday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The aggressive yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, has spread most Zika cases.

«Although Florida's current nine Zika cases were travel - related, we have to ensure Florida is prepared and stays ahead of the spread of the Zika virus in our state,» Scott said in a statement on Thursday.

-- ZIKA: Florida public health investigators have identified 10 additional Zika cases in the Miami area, bringing the total to 14 in the first known outbreak of the virus to be caused by mosquitoes in the continental U.S., Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Monday.

In a press conference later on Friday, however, Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine expressed frustration with Scott and the state's health department for keeping him and other elected officials in the dark about the island - city's five locally transmitted Zika cases.

There is no word yet on whether Bti has been effective, but Puerto Rico was put under a state of emergency in August with the number of Zika cases on the island now at more than 15,000.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported over 4,200 Zika cases in US states, and over 180 locally acquired cases, which until Monday were only reported in Florida.

Dec. 31, 2015: U.S. reports its first locally acquired Zika case in Puerto Rico.

Not exact matches

It claimed that a pesticide being used to kill mosquitoes was linked to the cases of microcephaly, not the Zika virus itself.

This appears to be the first US case of a baby born with microcephaly, a condition in which the brain is abnormally small, after having a Zika infection.

«These findings suggest low level transmission of Zika virus and new cases may occur in the future,» the WHO said in the statement on its website.

But Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and other Democratic leaders say the bill is unacceptable in its present form, including a ban on federal funding for Planned Parenthood in Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory in the Caribbean that has reported nearly 2,000 cases of Zika infection.

In the Hawaii case, a doctor recognized the possibility of a Zika infection in the newborn baby and alerted state officials, the health department said.

The researchers said these cases of arthrogryposis were possibly connected to the nervous system, which is consistent with some of the other birth defects linked to Zika.

To date, travel - associated cases make up the vast majority of Zika infections in U.S..

The CDC said «travel notices,» like those issued for Zika - struck countries like Brazil and Singapore, have not been issued for these destinations, but such warnings would be considered if the number of cases rises to the level of an outbreak.

The agency said there have been recent variations in the number of cases reported in the region and, while the level of risk is unknown, Zika virus infection during pregnancy causes severe birth defects, including microcephaly and other severe brain abnormalities.

Having treated over a dozen cases already, Dr. Christine Curry, University of Miami, describes what it is like to treat pregnant women with Zika.

While Zika has been far more prominent in tropical climates such as Puerto Rico and Brazil, where the 2016 Olympics will begin on Friday, there have been more than 1,650 reported cases in the U.S., including the 14 new locally acquired infections in Florida.