Zika virus can affect your next vacation spot. Federal health officials are urging pregnant women to Miami Beach, Florida to avoid trips t...
Zika virus can affect your next vacation spot.
Federal health officials are urging pregnant women to Miami Beach, Florida to avoid trips to Governor Rick Scott Friday confirmed five cases of local transmission of Zika took place there.
Previously transmitted local transmission Zika by mosquitoes - can cause birth defects, which breaks my heart in babies - has been limited to a quarter north of Miami, known as Wynwood. The Centers for Disease Control and prevention of disease had already warned that pregnant women not to go to the Wynwood area, to 19 August 2016, the elongated body, including advice on the affected area of Zika Miami beach.
"We think we have a new area where local transmission in Miami Beach takes," Scott told reporters during a midday press conference. "
"Pregnant women traveling in the designated area of Miami Beach, adjacent to the area Wynwood called the local labor transfer should avoid Zika was confirmed," said CDC - Director Dr. Tom Peace at the press conference on Friday.
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A wider travel warning for pregnant women could tourism and fears of pregnant women at risk in the area of Miami life.
Zika virus is usually transmitted by mosquitoes and can cause temporary illness. It is dangerous for pregnant women because the virus microcephaly report devastating birth defect where the babies are born smaller than normal heads and brains underdeveloped.
Zika is transmitted sexually and by mosquitoes, so that each sex -. Partner of a pregnant woman or a woman who should pregnant could take precautions, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of Diseases reported that men can they were infected by a condom for the duration of use of the pregnancy of a sexual partner. Women who have been necessary to postpone pregnancy for at least eight weeks, and because the virus in the semen to live for six months or more men, which may be contaminated should avoid infected for at least unprotected sex long. Zika not always cause symptoms, so people should be aware that if they were somewhere that Zika spread, you may be infected and unrealized.
"Although the state of Florida, has collected using CDC and continue to mount an aggressive response, ...
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