Sentences with phrase «zika outbreaks»

So far, the 1,658 Zika infections reported in the United States mainly have been linked to travel to countries with Zika outbreaks in Latin America or the Caribbean.

The more than 1,800 Zika infections so far reported in the United States mainly have been linked to travel to countries with Zika outbreaks in Latin America or the Caribbean.

Unfortunately, many of those countries are rife with Zika outbreaks.

Dengue — which, like Zika, is primarily transmitted by mosquitoes — is common in Brazil and other countries where Zika outbreaks have been occurring in the past couple of years.

In some ways, that's good news; it might suggest Zika outbreaks are swift.

Addressing the Zika outbreaks has been a challenge for health officials, and since the first microcephaly cases were reported in Brazil last year, there has been a nationwide effort to find practical solutions to the growing threat of the virus.

However the modelling of other Zika outbreaks, and also the highly related dengue outbreaks, suggest that this is not unusual.

This discovery has led the global health community to question whether A. albopictus will exacerbate the rate and number of Zika outbreaks as we enter deeper into mosquito season.

«Of particular interest, the authors estimate that attendees returning to African countries, which are thought particularly vulnerable to Zika outbreaks, would be infectious to mosquitos for a total of between 1 and 14 days.

Doctors in several countries have noticed over the last 2 years that during Zika outbreaks, the number of cases of GBS increases.

«Our findings should help to predict the areas at the greatest risk of dengue, chikungunya and Zika outbreaks,» said Rohr.

The research team calculated the risks for both conditions based on latest information from the current Zika outbreaks in Brazil and Colombia.

In previous Zika outbreaks in Micronesia and Polynesia, more than 66 % of the population became infected with Zika.

Last March researchers wrote in the journal Eurosurveillance that in French Polynesia the incidence of Guillain — Barré had increased 20-fold since Zika outbreaks began there in the past couple years — but no official data has yet been released.

The similarities are fueling concern among global health experts that the U.S. could face its own Zika outbreaks — the question is when.

Spencer Fox, co-lead author and PhD Student at the University of Texas at Austin, said: «Our model was designed to quantify the risk of local Zika outbreaks as cases accumulate across Texas, taking into account international travel patterns, mosquito habitat, and the low detection rate of Zika infections.

Dr. Lauren Ancel Meyers, senior author and Professor at The University of Texas at Austin, added: «Zika outbreaks require the importation of the disease by infected travellers followed by local mosquito - borne transmission.

The rare autoimmune disease can lead to paralysis, and recently it appears to be occurring more frequently than usual within at least eight countries and territories reporting Zika outbreaks.

Countries and territories that currently have active Zika outbreaks include:

Another conspiracy theory about the most recent Zika outbreak hit the internet in February.

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 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has generally downplayed the seriousness of the public health crisis, Clinton yesterday toured a Miami neighborhood health clinic near ground zero of the Zika outbreak and admonished lawmakers for having adjourned until after Labor Day without resolving a partisan impasse over the urgently needed spending bill.

Unlike parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean hit hardest by the recent Zika outbreak, areas of Southeast Asia have had the virus present for many years.

The number of babies born with microcephaly in northeast Brazil, the country hardest hit by the Zika outbreak, has increased about 40-fold from baseline levels in the last six months, according to reports from Brazil's Ministry of Health.

For a graphic of Florida's Zika outbreak, click here: (http://tmsnrt.rs/2b3VUp3)

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price has promised to treat the opioid issue as an emergency but told reporters earlier this week the declaration is typically reserved for time - limited problems like the Zika outbreak or Hurricane Sandy.

Long Islanders who have traveled to regions affected by the Zika outbreak are being urged to take precautions when they return so the disease is not transmitted locally.

Connecticut's two U.S. senators say the $ 320,000 the state is receiving from the federal government to prepare for a potential Zika outbreak represents a fraction of what the state needs.

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.

If the county legislature approves it, Nassau would be the first municipality statewide to pass legislation to implement controls and penalties on travel carriers in the wake of the worldwide Zika outbreak, county officials said.

Then if there is a Zika outbreak in its area, a centre would be ready to begin a vaccine trial straight away.

«There is still an urgent need to bolster our preparedness and capacity to respond to the next Zika outbreak,» says Alexey Terskikh, Ph.D., associate professor at SBP.

Blood from people affected by the 2014 Zika outbreak in French Polynesia provides the first evidence that the virus can make the immune system attack nerve cells

2007: First large Zika outbreak in humans, on the Pacific island of Yap in Micronesia.

The one Zika outbreak that occurred in Texas in Cameron County in November of 2016 falls within this region.

The mutation arose around May 2013, shortly before a Zika outbreak in...

«This provides very compelling evidence that every country that experiences a large Zika outbreak is likely to see devastating outcomes on fetuses and infants,» says CDC epidemiologist Peggy Honein.

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

They applied those findings to explain the role of the earthquake and El Niño in the Zika outbreak.

Tests with the viral strains from the current Zika outbreak are ongoing.

He was inspired to pursue Zika research after a meeting at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in June 2015, where Brazilian scientists described accounts of a rise in birth defects related to a local Zika outbreak.

Despite the ongoing Zika outbreak in Brazil, only a quarter of Americans believe that American athletes should withdraw from the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

The difference between national birth rates and local rates in Rio could be due to the Zika outbreak being particularly pronounced in the city, says Karin Nielsen at the University of California, Los Angeles.

«With the Zika outbreak, we knew that we needed to do everything in our power to share the Aedes genome assembly, and our methods, as soon as possible,» Dudchenko said.

What keeps him up at night, Cornel said, is grave concern that there will be a Zika outbreak in California.

But on 24 November, authorities in French Polynesia reported that there were 17 cases of unusual central nervous system birth defects following a Zika outbreak there in 2013 and 2014.

«If a Zika outbreak occurs in a metropolitan area like Miami, the only way to prevent infection is to avoid the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that carry the virus.

«Can a Zika outbreak be sustained sexually?

In a new paper, a team led by Santa Fe Institute Research Fellow Laurent Hébert - Dufresne asks under what conditions a Zika outbreak might be sustained where mosquitos play no role.

The mutation arose around May 2013, shortly before a Zika outbreak in French Polynesia, the researchers calculate.