Sentences with phrase «zika epidemics»

Florida is home to many people who have emigrated from countries in Central and South America dealing with Zika epidemics or who travel to these countries, potentially exposing them to the virus.

The recent Ebola and Zika epidemics demonstrate the need for the continuous surveillance, rapid diagnosis and real - time tracking of emerging infectious diseases.

New York will offer free testing for all pregnant women who have traveled to a country affected by the Zika epidemic, regardless of whether they show symptoms.

Professor Ferguson added that previous exposure to dengue might also have played an important role in the current Zika epidemic.

The current Zika epidemic in Latin America is likely to burn itself out within three years, suggests new research.

«Zika epidemic likely to end within three years.»

In a paper published earlier this month in the journal Frontiers in Microbiology, researchers asked, «Could the recent zika epidemic have been predicted?»

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.

Aug. 12, 2016: U.S. government declares a public health emergency in Puerto Rico as a result of the Zika epidemic.

By combining all the data, the researchers found that the risk of a Zika epidemic varies widely across Texas counties.

The 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games were held not long after the height of the Zika epidemic.

The team's results may begin to answer an outstanding question from the Zika epidemic: Why have Zika - related microcephaly and other brain abnormalities been seen in areas hard - hit by outbreaks in the past few years but not in the decades following the virus's discovery in 1947?

The Zika epidemic could be over in three years — but by then up to 93.4 million people may have been infected, including 1.65 million women of childbearing age, and tens of thousands of babies could be affected.

As evidence grew for a causal link between Zika infection and microcephaly and other serious congenital anomalies (1), the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Latin American Zika epidemic a public health emergency of international concern in February 2016 (2).

Based largely on lessons provided by Brazil's Zika epidemic, Castro discusses five critical problems and challenges and reflects on opportunities to remedy them.

Predictive models suggest the ongoing Zika epidemic may run out of steam after two or three more seasons, but these models do not consider how urban slums and their highly mobile populations affect the disease's dynamics, according to the study.

The participants in the group with «explicit conditions» read an article with explicitly false information — the Zika epidemic in Brazil was caused by the release of genetically modified mosquitoes by a subsidiary of a pharmaceutical company that was hoping to profit from a future vaccine.

As the Zika epidemic spreads to the United States, the potential for contracting the disease via blood transfusion has emerged as a serious concern.

The study is the first laboratory - based epidemiological study since the start of the Zika epidemic.

The study comes in the wake of an ongoing Zika epidemic and an explosion of cases involving fetal death, microcephaly (born with severely decreased head size), and other congenital birth defects.

«Zika epidemic highlights need for priority vaccine research for pregnant women.»

Herd immunity could drive the Zika epidemic in South and Central America to an end, but some 93 million people could be infected before then

WHO Director Margaret Chan announced she would call a meeting of the IHR Emergency Committee on Feb. 1 to discuss the Zika epidemic and what needs to be done at the global level to address the disease.

But their results showing that one infection primes the immune system to protect against future infection could provide some peace of mind for millions left in the wake of the Zika epidemic.

A Zika epidemic has been rampaging through the Americas.

For the new report, officials reporting from six countries — Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Suriname, and Venezuela — as well as the state of Bahia in Brazil, found GBS surged during the Zika epidemic, with rates increasing from 100 percent in El Salvador to 877 percent in Venezuela.

So, although it seems that in rare cases there can be sexual transmission of Zika, the UK is highly unlikely to experience a Zika epidemic.

An alternative candidate introduction event — another football tournament, the 2013 Confederations Cup — occurred before the Zika epidemic really got started in Polynesia.

As part of the EU project ZIKAlliance, we are investigating the Zika epidemic and the impact it has had in South and Central America.

Also, efforts to contain the epidemic would have needed to have been implemented much earlier in the current Zika epidemic to have a major effect - but by the time we realised the scale of the problem it was too late.»

Since the Zika epidemic began last spring, it's believed there have been more than 5,600 suspected or confirmed cases of microcephaly in Brazil, the World Health Organization reported Friday.

While the Zika epidemic first surfaced in Brazil last spring, Zika virus has since spread to 30 countries and territories in South and Central America and the Caribbean.

U.S. officials said they don't expect to see a Zika epidemic in the United States similar to those in Latin America.

But U.S. officials said they don't expect to see a Zika epidemic in the United States similar to those in Latin America.

«The Zika epidemic has been very explosive, more explosive than we can account for by just mosquitoes and the level of Zika virus in human blood.

Not exact matches

Lessons from Zika and HIV: Protecting Mothers and Babies from the Next Global Epidemic Symposium

Honduras has reported its first death from a paralysing illness linked to the Zika virus, a mosquito - borne epidemic that is spreading through Latin America and also suspected of causing birth defects.

This mirrors other epidemics, such as chikungunia — a similar virus to Zika — where we have seen explosive epidemics followed by long periods with few new cases.»

But more than 220 years ago, this same breed of mosquito was spreading a different and deadly epidemic right here in Philadelphia and just like Zika, this epidemic is seeing a modern resurgence, with Brazil at its epicenter.

Bulstrode says the South American epidemic has shown that Zika infection is usually mild in adults, making it fairly safe for anyone who isn't pregnant.

The World Health Organization did not declare the epidemic a public health emergency until February 2016, after babies of Zika - infected mothers began to be born with severe neurological problems.

In 2016, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommended that public health officials trigger epidemic intervention when two non-familial locally - acquired cases of Zika are reported in an area.

When an epidemic outbreak — such as those caused by the H1N1, Zika or SARS viruses — takes place, containment measures may seem to be the most reasonable solution.

For Ebola, for Zika, and for the epidemics that come next, global engagement will always mean building up trust in local communities as well, sometimes in «imaginative and adaptive» ways, Dye said.

A new model for assessing real - time risk of a Zika virus epidemic in the United States is described in research published in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases.

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.

An extensive investigation of that epidemic by CDC concluded that 73 % of the population was infected, an impressive number that suddenly made Zika an emerging pathogen to watch.

The new report suggests that, as in Brazil, Zika virus bears blame for Colombia's microcephaly epidemic too.

An example of such epidemics is the Zika outbreak which is ongoing in the Americas after emerging in the Pacific region.

Health Systems & Reform presents the article «Zika Virus and Health Systems in Brazil: From Unknown to a Menace,» a commentary by Professor Marcia C. Castro, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, on the Zika Virus epidemic in Brazil and the Americas.