In an analysis published on December 7 in Clinical Infectious Diseases, scientists from Rutgers University, Harvard University, Yale University, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the NIH and
other academic centers, industry and public health agencies say new diagnostic methods offer a better
chance for more accurate detection of the
infection from the Lyme bacteria.
In the rare
chance that an Olympic traveler catches Zika and exports the virus to another country with mosquitoes that could spread it around, Scott Weaver, a leading Zika specialist and the director of the Institute
for Human
Infections and Immunity at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, says there's likely little reason
for worry: «It is likely that rates of human immunity in many
other parts to the world that are permissive
for circulation, such as tropical Africa and Asia, are already high enough to preclude major epidemics like we are seeing in the completely naive populations of the Americas.»