Sentences with phrase «zika threat»

Dr. Hal Lawrence, president and CEO of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, said he is concerned that a funding cut to Planned Parenthood clinics could give low - income women less access to birth control that can help them guard against unintended pregnancies in the face of the Zika threat.

Since Congress hasn't yet approved new funding, the Obama administration said they will instead redirect $ 589 million from Ebola to responding to the Zika threat.

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.

From the Zika threat, to contaminated waters, to protesting police, to the uninhabitable athlete village, this year's event is surely one for the books.

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, American Enterprise Institute Resident Fellow, discusses the Zika threat in the U.S. and how to the fight against the virus is progressing.

Florida Governor Rick Scott discusses the Zika threat in Florida, the CDC's travel warning for Miami and the impact on the state's tourism.

Not exact matches

The news comes just over a week after the World Health Organization declared Zika was no longer a «public health emergency,» indicating that the disease was now a threat it would be fighting long term, like malaria or yellow fever.

U.S. Senator Harry Reid, a Democrat, said the transmission of Zika in Miami Beach «is the most alarming development yet in the rapidly growing threat of Zika in the United States.»

While the desire to remain safe is understandable, the WHO has said that the threat of Zika spreading wildly during the Olympics is actually quite low.

Ironically, the threat of Zika is likely far greater in the United States, where the first locally - contracted cases began popping up last week, according to Dr. Peter Hotez, Dean for the National School of Tropical Medicine at Houston's Baylor College of Medicine.

And to be sure, after Zika, will come another global pathogenic threat — one, that public health experts worry, may do an even better job of outsmarting and overwhelming us.

The Zika virus is the newest threat to humanity, especially pregnant women, so they say.

As reported by the New York Post's Yoav Gonen, Kavanagh joined Mayor Bill de Blasio and New York City Health Commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett for a press briefing on the City's proactive response to the threat of the Zika virus, and the need for Congress to fund a robust, decisive effort by the federal government — in New York and especially in warmer places where mosquitoes known to transmit the virus are prevalent — to avert a health crisis in the United States.

As concerns about the Zika virus continue to intensify, New York's senior senator is imploring federal agencies to take decisive steps to try to contain the threat.

DBCH continues its work to engage with providers and community partners on the prevention of communicable diseases as well as tick - borne illnesses that are prevalent in the region, particularly Lyme disease, while also continuously monitoring for new threats such as the Zika virus.

There is little threat of the Zika virus spreading to the United States, said Falk Professor David Larsen.

With the threat of mosquito - borne Zika virus on the horizon, state health officials are going after the winged carriers as an important prevention technique.

A Syracuse University professor of public health said that there is little threat of the Zika virus spreading across the United States, and called the governor's plan to expand testing of pregnant woman an «overreaction.»

Erie County Legislator Lynne Dixon, Chairwoman of the Health and Human Services Committee, hosted a discussion on June 16, 2016 with the County's Health Department to discuss the Zika virus and its threat to this region.

Zika Virus Oneida County Health Department (OCHD) has received its first notification of a confirmed case of Zika virus in the County; the person acquired the disease while travelling to South America and at this time, there is no threat to public health in Oneida County.

On Tuesday officials in Oneida County said a resident there was infected with Zika while visiting a country where the disease is prevalent, but said the case poses no threat to the public.

Cuomo was busy Thursday outlining an extensive state response to a new public health threat, the Zika virus.

The reason Zika is considered such a threat is that it's spreading rapidly through the Americas, including parts of the U.S., and can cause severe complications.

Yet analysis of past French Polynesian Zika patients, published in The Lancet, suggests that exposure to Zika exacerbates the baseline GBS threat some 20-fold.

«It is very hard to determine which one might come next — Zika virus wasn't on anyone's radar screen before it became an international threat,» he added.

However, Zika importation and transmission rates vary widely, meaning that two such cases may pose very different threats in different locations.

By far the most alarming feature of the Zika virus now marching across South America and the Caribbean is its threat to fetuses.

Scouring the web and social media sites for data, and the formation of multi-disciplinary scientific teams offers a window onto the quickly moving and novel approaches being used to tackle the public health threat posed by the Zika virus.

D.A. Henderson, an epidemiologist who helped lead the program that eradicated smallpox and has advised the U.S. government on several other infectious diseases, says the threat of Zika to the United States does not warrant the degree of fear and concern that it has triggered.

Weaver, an expert in mosquito - borne viruses in the family that includes Zika, dengue, West Nile and yellow fever, warned as early as 2009 that Zika presented a threat in the Americas.

Discussion of people fighting the spread of Zika virus and other exotic diseases — big threats despite their minuscule size — makes the book especially timely.

Zika remains a significant public health threat in affected countries and regions, highlighting the need for continued surveillance and research on the virus.

Many international travelers to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, openly considered skipping the games to avoid the threat of Zika.

«When it comes to responding to this public health threat, the results do show that the public is supportive of policy approaches designed to prevent the spread of Zika in the United States.»

Greer, associate professor of health management and policy, said the current administration's difficulty getting funding for Zika in a presidential election year represents a bit of déjà vu, in terms of political posturing in the face of a major health threat.

The mosquitoes known as Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus transmit arboviruses that are increasing threats to human health in the Americas, particularly dengue, chikungunya, and Zika viruses.

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Nearly 200 bioethicists have called for this year's Olympics to be postponed due to the threat of Zika virus in Rio, where 32,000 people may be infected

Such modifications could be introduced, for example, in mosquito populations, to attack their ability to carry human health threats such as malaria and the Zika virus.

This has allowed the scientific community to respond quickly when the Zika virus threat emerged.

«Zika virus, which has become a threat to health in the Americas, could be genetically modified to destroy glioblastoma cells,» said Rodrigo Ramos Catharino, a professor at FCF - UNICAMP and head of the institution's Innovare Biomarker Laboratory.

With its rapid spread throughout Central and South America, Zika has emerged as a severe health threat that can cause microcephaly in newborns, as well as Guillain - Barre syndrome in children and adults.

Though scientists have considered Zika primarily a threat to unborn babies, the new findings suggest that the virus may cause unknown — and potentially long - term — ...

«As the next epidemic or viral threat comes up — for example, the next Zika or Ebola — we think there's a lot of utility in using this for better surveillance for those outbreaks,» says Jonathan Gootenberg, another team member.

«There has been a lot of work done in the past year or so to address the Zika health threat.

To support this and other efforts by the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health, Fauci noted that President Obama last week asked Congress for $ 1.8 billion budget supplement to respond to the threat of Zika, including funding to support the NIH involvement in vaccine development.

Zika is closely related to the dengue virus, a much more familiar threat.

HIV, Ebola, SARS and now Zika — public health responses to viral threats need to improve before the next one hits

He often warns about the threat of epidemics and exotic mosquitoes; when the Asian bush mosquito (Aedes japonicus) showed up in the Netherlands, for instance, Knols said it might be able to transmit Zika, and, if so, a major door - to - door eradication effort would be called for.

«Although we are still working to establish causality with Zika, we can not tolerate the prospect of more babies being born with neurological and other malformations, and more people facing the threat of paralysis due to Guillain — Barré syndrome.