How can you remove a home for mosquitoes that transmit Zika? Remove standing water. to lay Aedes aegypti eggs in stagnant water and only n...
How can you remove a home for mosquitoes that transmit Zika?
Remove standing water. to lay Aedes aegypti eggs in stagnant water and only need a thimble left in a dog bowl, a puddle in a shower drain or drop in the pool in plant pot.
These mosquitoes hide in dark, damp places - angled in closets, under beds and others. The CDC recommends the use of insecticide sprays inside or sprays to kill mosquitoes and treatment of spaces where they can hide. He said: "These products work immediately, and may need to reapply."
To prevent mosquitoes from entering your home, close the window, use the air conditioner and make sure screens are secure.
If your children or spouse is infected, you are at risk?
Children and spouses may be infected when bitten by infected mosquitoes, so they should with repellent to protect. The main risk would be with your partner for you to have unprotected sex, practice safe sex during pregnancy.
More generally, the coming infected theoretically any person and bites a random blood meal for Aedes aegypti mosquito could serve that. This mosquito could be infected and bite a pregnant woman. Therefore, all people are in a place like Miami-Dade should do everything possible to protect mosquitoes and prevent in homes and workplaces of the breed.
If you are pregnant, Miami-Dade, it is safe to visit?
It depends on whether you can take against mosquitoes do not protect, and if you would feel comfortable.
There are reasons for the CDC recommendation on two levels for pregnant women made: First, do not go in two areas of Wynwood and Miami Beach where active transmission Zika took place; Consider two not the rest of Miami-Dade to go.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the recommendation on the risk assessment was based on the virus in the continental United States, the much much better control of mosquitoes has Latin America and the Caribbean, where Zika is native.
It is based also with two other viruses to experience that spread by the Aedes aegypti, dengue and chikungunya, said. When these viruses emerged in the continental United States, including Florida, most cases "singular" were, he said, which means that no one else in the home or workplace of the infected person. This is probably because the infected mosquito has bitten a person shortly before his death.
For just about every nine individual cases there were about two groups, areas where two or more people have been infected. This model seems to the Zika virus in South Florida to play according to experts.
"It is often asked why a portion of a state to speak, if you have guidelines advising people to go an entire country is not," Fauci said. "It is because the conditions in the various countries are very different from what we see in Florida."
Therefore, he said, decided the CDC pregnant women to say, do not go to the pages of two Florida groups to confirm the risk areas. And for the rest of Miami-Dade, "because there is some uncertainty, the decision was at least people say that there is some risk."
The health authorities also want to take into account the realities of people's lives and the difficulties that may impose warnings, including economic and personal difficulties to travel when they sacrifice jobs or leave the family need or avoid Zika area.
"We must be very careful not to look like they teaches people what they should do with their lives," said Dr. Fauci. "But you have to give enough information to people to make decisions to protect themselves."
It is a balancing act - for civil servants and for pregnant women.
The question of whether pregnant women should Miami-Dade, the director of the Institute for Human Infections and Immunity at the University of Texas Medical Branch go, Scott C. Weaver said: "I do not think that a simple black and white thing . If someone or work canceled, something that can not be moved, and extreme precautions need to really take a hotel room stay inside are much the product. "
However, he said: "I certainly believe that pregnant women who have the choice, should not move if your trip to travel with security the epidemic areas but also in the entire southern region of Florida.".
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