Sentences with phrase «since zika»

Since Zika isn't as much of a concern, do we need to buy bug sprays with DEET, a known toxin?

«Since Zika virus has emerged as a global health emergency, most research has focused on the virus and its effects on humans.

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.

It's been more than a year since the Zika virus arrived in the continental U.S., prompting researchers to learn more about this little - known relative of dengue and chikungunya.

«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.

«Since Zika is a relatively new public health concern, there is a lack of specialized knowledge on the life expectancy of these infants and the long - term health problems they will experience.»

Certain birth defects are on the rise since Zika arrived in the U.S. Science News Online, March 2, 2017.

There has been a 20-fold increase in the number of babies born with this condition, known as microcephaly, since Zika first appeared in Brazil in May 2015.

Since Zika virus could also be sexually transmitted, prevention of men from infection through vaccination could also halt Zika transmission and diseases.

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.

Since Zika is a new disease in the Americas, it's still too early to tell whether it will follow in the footsteps of its cousins or forge its own path through the Americas or around the world.

Not exact matches

To show just how rapidly Zika gained a foothold in the Americas, we created a GIF displaying all of the places that the Zika virus has spread through local transmission since the start of the outbreak:

The Centers for Disease Control is monitoring roughly 280 pregnant women infected with Zika in the U.S., while Brazil has reported nearly 3,600 pregnant women with Zika since the start of the year.

Experts both inside and outside the government say concerns over naled are overblown, especially since it's one of the few options left to prevent the spread of Zika.

«We've had flexible reacommodation available for anyone concerned about traveling to an area with Zika present since late February,» said Morgan Durrant, a spokesman for the airline.

«The Republican Senate refuses to hold hearings on [Supreme Court nominee] Judge Garland, refuses to fund the President's request for Zika aid and takes the most days off of any Senate since 1956, but thinks Facebook hearings are a matter of urgent national interest,» Jentleson said.

Zika was detected in Brazil last year and has since spread across the Americas.

The company's Gene - RADAR system can be used at the actual hospitals where patients go; it's portable, making it an especially convenient system for Zika virus testing since blood samples don't have to be shipped off to diagnostic labs.

Spieth, along with world No. 1 Jason Day, Dustin Johnson, and Rory McIlroy, determined for various reasons — the Zika virus, a hectic PGA Tour schedule, security and other very real Rio - related issues — that they would not participate in golf's return to the Summer Games for the first time since 1904 (1900 for the women).

In addition, since as I mentioned before that the disease is generally mild, we have no evidence to suggest that infants with zika would have severe disease and because we know there are many benefits of breast feeding, we are encouraging women to breast feed even in areas within going zika virus transmission.

According to the World Health Organisation, 41 countries or territories have reported transmission of Zika within their borders since last year, and nine have reported an increase in Guillain - Barre cases.

There have been 42 cases of non-travel related Zika cases in Florida since the July 29 outbreak in Wynwood.

The Zika virus is currently spreading in Central and South America; over one million people have become infected since spring 2015.

As of July 19, the CDC reported 5,392 cases of Zika in U.S. states since 2015, including 224 infections acquired locally.

«We've been seeing growing evidence of the association between Zika and congenital central nervous system malformations, not just microcephaly, since the first cases were picked up,» says Wim Van Bortel, senior expert on vector - borne diseases at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in Solna, Sweden.

The research does not conclude that the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) can transmit Zika to humans, but it highlights the need for deeper research into additional potential vectors for the virus that has rapidly spread through the Americas since its initial outbreak in 2015, says Chelsea Smartt, Ph.D., associate professor at the Florida Medical Entomology Laboratory at the University of Florida and lead author on the study to be published this week in the Entomological Society of America's Journal of Medical Entomology.

Since then more than 50 domestic cases have been reported, all from travelers who contracted Zika in more than a dozen countries around the globe.

Since its discovery in 1947, Zika virus has traveled the globe, spreading across Africa, Asia and now the Americas.

Zika virus transmission is more complicated since mosquitoes are involved, Morens says.

Since so little is known about how Zika virus behaves once inside the body, researchers also searched for evidence of viral infection in the animals» organs.

Since 2016, when Zika was declared by the World Health Organization as a public health emergency of international concern, the virus has become established in more than 80 countries, infected millions of people, and left many babies with birth defects (collectively called congenital Zika syndrome).

The World Health Organization reports that more than 1 million people in 52 countries and territories in the Americas have been infected with the Zika virus since 2015.

«Our laboratory in Thailand has been conducting biosurveillance for Zika for the past three years, since we started to observe dengue - like illnesses in Thailand and the Philippines that were not dengue and did not test positive for other likely causes,» said Thomas.

But since 2015 Zika has ricocheted to more than 40 countries, transmitted by mosquito bite or human sexual contact.

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

«We have been monitoring women with both symptomatic and asymptomatic Zika since February,» when the U.S. tracking began, she adds.

Zika was known for 60 years as a mild virus that appeared sporadically, but since 2007, two troubling shifts have taken place, Dye said: Zika virus now results in widespread outbreaks of hundreds or thousands of cases, and it is associated with neurological disorders like microcephaly and Guillain - Barre syndrome, a disorder in which the body's immune system attacks the nerves.

Since 2016 thousands of children across South America have been born with microcephaly, which causes abnormally small heads, after their mothers became infected with the Zika virus during pregnancy.

But since a substantial part of the harmful effects of Zika virus infection may occur in the early part of pregnancy, administering vaccines prior to pregnancy or early in pregnancy may be most beneficial, and more clinical research is needed for this time period.

It will be important to test all this thoroughly before releasing any Zika vaccine, since regions of the world with Zika also have dengue.

Since October, Brazil has reported more than 4,000 suspected cases of microcephaly in areas with Zika circulation.

The World Health Organization recently declared an international public health emergency over the Zika virus, a mosquito - borne virus that emerged early last year in Brazil and has since spread rapidly throughout Latin America.

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

Since warmer temperatures are favorable to them, we could see a rise in global cases of malaria, West Nile virus, encephalitis, dengue fever, the Zika virus, Lyme disease, and so much more.

One could make an argument that since there's a lot we still don't know about Zika, based on the precautionary principle the games pose too great a risk to human health.

Since the evolutionary trees produced by Faria et al support (although can not absolutely prove) that Zika arrived in Brazil from Polynesia, it seems likely that no specific sporting event is to blame.

It has since become the hardest hit country, with an estimated 1.5 million cases of active Zika transmission and 641 confirmed cases of microcephaly.

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.

Since early last year, when the Zika virus arrived in Florida, 1,329 local and travel - related cases have been confirmed in the state.

While most adults who are infected with Zika experience only mild symptoms, thousands of babies have been born with Zika - linked birth defects, mostly in Brazil, since the outbreak began in April 2015.