Sentences with phrase «zika infection»

For most of these companies, avoiding a potential Zika infection is not reason enough to cancel a trip and stay home, so as a result they're not paying out on the policies that were purchased.

[2] An August 2016 study looking at the effect of Zika infection on the adult brain suggests that adult brain cells responsible for replacing lost or damaged neurons throughout adulthood, cells that are likely critical to learning and memory, may be vulnerable to infection.

Among other things, human tears potentially could be tested for viral RNA or antibodies, which would offer a less painful way to diagnose Zika infection than drawing blood.

Any new cases of Zika infection have been among people who brought the infection with them from areas outside the United States, Philip said.

Up to now, only nine deaths directly caused by Zika infection have been confirmed in adults, the doctors noted in their letter.

A 38 - year - old man in Salt Lake City appears to have contracted Zika while caring for an elderly man who died from complications related to Zika infection, according to a report in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The new numbers include all pregnant women who have had laboratory confirmation of a Zika infection regardless of whether they had symptoms or not.

Positive tests for people with suspected Zika infection increased from 14 percent in February to 64 percent in June in Puerto Rico.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued new recommendations that people who have been to areas of Zika transmission, have possibly been exposed to the virus, or have a confirmed Zika infection should be deferred from donating blood.

The CDC is telling doctors to test the women for Zika infection between two weeks and 12 weeks after they return home.

A new case of locally transmitted Zika infection was also reported in Tampa, health officials said on Tuesday, although no travel advisory has yet been issued for that locale.

TUESDAY, Aug. 30, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- In yet another example of the damage that maternal Zika infection can inflict on a fetus during the early months of pregnancy, a new report suggests that close to 6 percent of these babies may also experience hearing loss.

«While this individual did test positive for Zika virus, the exact cause of death has not been determined, and it may not be possible to determine how the Zika infection contributed to the death,» the health department said in a statement.

TUESDAY, Aug. 16, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- In what appears to be the first case of Zika infection traveling across state lines, Texas health officials report that a resident of that state who visited Miami recently has tested positive for the virus.

The study can't prove that maternal Zika infection caused the miscarriage, only that there was an association.

However, the danger of mosquito - borne Zika infection for pregnant American women became more imminent this month, with two neighborhoods in the Miami area reporting cases of locally acquired infection.

But the incidence of pregnant women with a known Zika infection in the U.S. is climbing.

There are now over 200 pregnant women in America with a documented Zika infection.

This report is the first from the U.S. territories and includes the largest number of completed pregnancies with confirmed cases of Zika infection to date, the CDC said.

The American Red Cross on Wednesday asked potential blood donors who have traveled to areas where Zika infection is active to wait 28 days before giving blood.

The findings also showed that birth defects could occur even in women who had no symptoms of Zika infection, CDC officials stressed.

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 10, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- Four more cases of Zika infection that were likely spread through mosquito bites have been reported in the Miami area, bringing the total count of cases to 21, Florida Gov. Rick Scott said Tuesday.

«Public health officials, neurologists and critical care and emergency medicine specialists need to be alert to the likely rise in Guillain - Barre syndrome cases that will occur in other parts of the world that are currently going through epidemics of acute Zika infection,» Willison said.

And the third group had 70 patients diagnosed with Zika infection but who didn't have Guillain - Barre syndrome.

So, individuals with acute Zika infection should not be greatly alarmed by the fear of developing of Guillain - Barre syndrome,» said researcher Dr. Hugh Willison.

«Do they show efficacy or protective activity, if we transfer them to the mice, either prior to or after Zika infection?

The researchers observed changes in human small RNAs produced in hNPCs upon Zika infection, as well as in small RNAs directly generated from Zika virus.

They found that compared to dengue infection, Zika infection more strongly affects expression of genes involved in DNA replication and repair, processes that are important in brain development.

Testing for Zika virus RNA in placental tissue can confirm Zika infection when the mother's blood tests are inconclusive, according to a new study.

Dr. Zhang and his colleagues at Emory, Johns Hopkins, and Florida State University focused on the effects of the virus in hNPCs, which are highly susceptible to Zika infection.

Zika infection can present in many ways, from nearly no symptoms to full - blown febrile illness.

The bad news, Dudley's team now finds, is that pregnancy seems to increase how long a Zika infection lingers in the body.

The current outbreak of Zika infection in South and Central America is the focus of much research and a paper published in the journal Science has attempted to work out when Zika virus first arrived in Brazil.

She says her data also suggest that once people get over a Zika infection they might not get another for quite a long time.

This Factsheet has information on Zika infection, complications and prevention.

Earlier this year, studies linked a mother's Zika infection early during pregnancy to a very serious birth defect.

Similar infections like dengue fever also circulate in the region, so Zika infection can often be misdiagnosed.

In a paper published in the journal the Lancet, scientists here and in France found that the vast majority of the Guillain - Barré patients had evidence of a prior Zika infection, and they concluded that the risk of the syndrome jumped as much as 24-fold for people infected with Zika compared with those who weren't infected.

The researchers found that nearly 1,500 of the more than 164,000 people with confirmed or suspected Zika infection they surveyed came down with GBS.

A group of researchers publishing in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine have used a modelling study to estimate the risk of Zika infection to those traveling to the Olympics in Brazil and suggest the number of infected travelers returning to all countries to be between 3 and 37.

Pregnant women are especially vulnerable to Zika infection because of potential birth defects.

«Thirdly, the images which appear to show Zika infection of mature sperm are very plausible but are similar to other images published over the years apparently showing other bacteria and viruses attached to sperm obtained from infected individuals.

«Whether the results are relevant to human Zika infection remains to be seen, since Zika does not normally cause disease in mice and an immune - suppressing antibody had to be administered for the Zika infection to progress.

Reports are emerging from the USA of a case of Zika infection caused through sexual contact with a person who had returned from Venezuela, rather than a mosquito bite.

«Both DNA vaccines, which have the advantage that they can not cause the disease, and inactivated virus particles, which carry a small risk of disease if activation is incomplete, have now been shown to generate immunity to Zika infection in mice.

Then, serological and entomological Zika infection were reported in different area in Africa (Burkina Faso, Ivory Cost, Egypt, Central African Republic, Mozambic, Nigeria, Uganda, Central African Republic and Senegal)[2, 9, 14 — 19].

Since another recent paper1 shows that a macaque monkey model of Zika infection has been established, this ought to happen soon.

«These studies clearly show us that the vaccine is able to generate antibodies that protect the mice from Zika infection.

There is a causal link between Zika infection and at least two serious diseases: microcephaly and Guillain - Barré Syndrome (GBS).

Zika infection is also strongly associated with Guillain - Barré Syndrome (GBS), an autoimmune disease that attacks the peripheral nervous system, leading to rapidly progressive and potentially life - threatening muscle weakness.