Sentences with phrase «transmit zika»

... The findings are also relevant to other mosquito - borne viruses including Zika because the mosquitoes that carry dengue also transmit the Zika virus.

A Health Ministry worker fumigated a market in Managua, Nicaragua, against mosquitoes that can transmit the Zika virus.

MONDAY, Aug. 29, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- Female mosquitoes can transmit the Zika virus to their eggs and offspring, and this may make it harder to contain outbreaks, a new lab study suggests.

Our colder climate means the mosquitoes which transmit Zika and dengue are not found here.

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.

The tests so far show strong evidence that mosquitoes can pick up and transmit Zika and chikungunya simultaneously — something that had not been confirmed before, given the recent arrival of Zika in the Americas.

A ministry of health official visits a family in Guatemala City to help control the mosquitoes that transmit Zika virus.

One Zika oddity is that infected males retain the virus in their semen nearly 10 times longer than women do in their vaginal fluids — 180 days rather than 20, on average — making males much more likely to transmit Zika sexually than females.

«What's more, researchers have shown that while relatively rare, Aedes aegypti mosquitoes are able to transmit Zika to their offspring, a mechanism allowing the virus to survive from one season to the next.»

«Researchers map mosquitoes that transmit Zika, Dengue by county.»

FMEL scientists do not yet know how well Aedes aegypti — the Yellow Fever mosquito — and Aedes albopictus — the Asian tiger mosquito — transmit the Zika virus to humans.

UF / IFAS scientists at the Vero Beach lab are already busy with an extensive research program on the mosquito species that transmit Zika, Rey said.

«Zika came in like a bulldozer,» he says, and many people in the Americas who coexist with Aedes mosquitoes, which transmit Zika, were infected.

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.

These researchers analyzed passengers arriving in the United States who left airports in Brazil located within 50 kilometers of areas that potentially could transmit Zika year - round.

It's very unlikely that she was infected by a bite by a mosquito that first bit her husband; the three tropical Aedes mosquito species known to transmit Zika don't live in northern Colorado, and moreover, the virus has to complete a 2 - week life cycle within the insect before it can infect the next human; Foy's wife fell ill just 9 days after his return.

They additionally highlighted U.S. regions that had the most hospitable climes for both Aedes species that transmit Zika.

«Both the mosquitos that transmit Zika and the virus itself are climate - sensitive,» said co-author Ángel Muñoz, a postdoctoral research associate in atmospheric and oceanic science at Princeton University, in an email.

«More mosquito species than previously thought may transmit Zika.»

The Onondaga County Health Department, which traps and tests mosquitoes every summer for West Nile and Eastern Equine Encephalitis, has never found the types of mosquitoes that transmit Zika in its traps.

It will put out two traps designed to attract Aedes mosquitoes that can transmit Zika.

Even though it is not here now, one type of mosquito that can transmit Zika virus may eventually migrate to Central New York, according to a mosquito - borne disease expert at Upstate Medical Univerity.

Mosquito populations, including the the kind that transmit Zika, tend to die down in colder winter months but can come back with a vengeance during warmer bouts.

In a press conference later on Friday, however, Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine expressed frustration with Scott and the state's health department for keeping him and other elected officials in the dark about the island - city's five locally transmitted Zika cases.

DR. DENISE JAMIESON: No, we don't know of any infants who have transmitted zika from breast feeding rather.

A rare case of sexually transmitted Zika virus was reported in Dallas on Tuesday by the local health department.

Following the confirmation by the Florida Health Department (and the Centers for Disease Control) of ten [now 14] cases of locally transmitted Zika virus in one section of Miami, Florida, the City's Health Department updated its current travel warning for -LSB-...]

«The traps are designed to attract and capture the kind of mosquito capable of transmitting Zika and that allows us to closely monitor the population for the presence of Zika or West Nile viruses.»

But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's decision, announced August 5, covers only a specific, preliminary test release of GM mosquitoes on Key Haven in the Florida Keys, where no locally transmitted Zika cases have been reported.

Members of the team from Oxford University mapped the global geography of (Aedes species) mosquitoes capable of transmitting Zika virus and then modeled the worldwide climate conditions necessary for the virus to spread between Aedes mosquitoes and humans.

The species of mosquito that most commonly transmits Zika will, on average, travel a mere 100 meters in its lifetime.

It notes some of the critical scientific questions regarding Zika that deserve further exploration, including: whether certain viral mutations occurred to facilitate its geographical spread; if different species of Aedes mosquitoes are capable of transmitting Zika and what that may mean for future transmission; what is apparently unique to Zika compared to other more well - known flaviviruses, such as dengue, that can explain why it can cause congenital infections, neurological conditions and encephalitis, transmit sexually and persist for long periods of time in multiple parts of the human body; and whether preexisting immunity to other related flaviviruses may impact Zika exposure and infection.

Many countries across Africa and Asia - Pacific may be vulnerable to Zika virus outbreaks, with India, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Nigeria, Vietnam, Pakistan, and Bangladesh expected to be at greatest risk of Zika virus transmission due to a combination of high travel volumes from Zika affected areas in the Americas, local presence of mosquitos capable of transmitting Zika virus, suitable climatic conditions, large populations and / or limited health resources, according to a new modelling study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

A multi-institutional team has sequenced the genome of the mosquito that transmits the Zika virus uisng a new way to sequence the genome of an organism entirely from scratch, dramatically cheaper and faster.

James Diaz, MD, DrPH, Professor and Program Director of Environmental / Occupational Health Sciences at LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health, details characteristics of the mosquitoes capable of transmitting the Zika virus in the United States, their habitats and biting behaviors, as well as control measures, in a paper published in the December 2016, issue of Wilderness & Environmental Medicine.

Mosquitoes likely transmitted Zika to people in this Miami neighborhood, according to the Florida health department.

ZIKA ZONE A one - square - mile area north of Miami (outlined in red) may be harboring mosquitoes that are transmitting the Zika virus.

Although all cases in the continental United States are imported cases, «it would not be surprising at all if, just like chikungunya and just like dengue, we do see clusters of locally transmitted Zika» in the United States, said Fauci.

So a tropical species like Aedes aegypti, which transmits Zika, dengue, and other human diseases, could expand its range northward in the United States as temperatures warm.

«This is the second case in the USA of sexually transmitted Zika, not the first as being reported.

While mosquitoes remain the biggest source of infection, cases of sexually transmitted Zika do occur.

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.

There have not been any reported cases of locally transmitted Zika in the U.S., though some health officials have told TIME that it's possible that Zika is already spreading in parts of the country.

Since early August, no new cases of locally transmitted Zika have been reported in Wynwood, the health officials said.

There are 2,487 travel associated cases, and Florida has reported 43 cases of locally transmitted Zika.

Michaels did not respond to questions about the exact date when OneBlood stopped collecting in areas where the Florida Department of Health has been investigating four suspected cases of locally transmitted Zika infections.

The same mosquito that transmits Zika, Dengue and Malaria is responsible for heartworm, and using the combination of the two in Double Defense is the best way to stop heartworm in its tracks.

One study from Indonesia performed in the 1970's found that the virus could infect livestock and bats but there are no documented cases of any of these animals transmitting Zika virus to humans.

«The publicity surrounding the discovery of locally - transmitted Zika virus cases in South Florida has had an immediate and dramatic impact on the intent of travelers to book vacations to Florida during the peak travel season,» said Daniel Durazo, director of communications at Allianz Global Assistance USA.

Travel Insurance Provider Allianz Global Assistance Evaluated Number of Travelers Planning Flights to Florida for the Peak Fall / Winter Travel Season in 2016 Compared to 2015The number of Americans planning to travel to Florida over the peak fall / winter season dropped by almost 15 percent following the discovery of locally - transmitted Zika virus in Miami, according to an analysis of travelers» booking intent by leading travel insurance provider Allianz Global Assistance.