Two more Zika cases reported in Iowa

Feb 29, 2016, 21:56

"To think that that could be taken away by a virus is pretty scary", said Johnston, a second-year medical student at Duke University.

According to The Center of Disease Control and Prevention, since August 257 women have been tested for the virus.

Two women chose to terminate their pregnancies. One of them delivered a seemingly healthy baby and the other is continuing her pregnancy without complications. Two are still pregnant. Pregnant women should also abstain from sex during pregnancy or use condoms with any male partners who goes to the Olympics or any other area where the mosquito-borne virus is present.

Spanish wind surfing gold medalist Marina Alabau believes she contracted Zika while training in Rio in December.

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The woman received the virus from her partner who had recently returned from Brazil. It's also published travel advice for pregnant women. All four lost pregnancies and the single case of birth with microcephaly occurred in this group of women. Of those, two experienced miscarriages and two chose to have abortions.

Six of the infected women acquired Zika during their first trimester, the CDC reported. It's launching a study to analyze how long Zika remains in semen, saliva and urine, and tracking birth defects and Guillain-Barre cases. He said the institutions' goal is to make the test more widely available to other types of patients and to neighboring hospitals and that researchers will share information about the test with anyone interested in setting up a similar testing effort. Most of the women reported having a rash and most had two symptoms. "We did not ... anticipate that we would see this many sexually transmitted cases of Zika", Frieden said.

The Federal Drug Administration on Friday posted an emergency authorization for a new CDC laboratory test for the Zika virus. "The big challenge right now is we don't have any interventions", Beigi said. But that doesn't mean that the baby does not deserve a chance to live.

Unlike some chromosomal issues that can be detected in the womb with a very high degree of certainty, a child's long-term trajectory can be less clear-cut with microcephaly. The baby's head circumference is much smaller than normal. The diagnosis of microcephaly may be made at birth or later in infancy.

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A growing number of global athletes in recent weeks have said they are concerned about Zika, though few have said it would deter them from competing.

L.A. County's Public Health department has issued a travel warning for Angelenos headed to several Latin American and Caribbean countries where Zika infections are more widespread. "Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia does".

The Zika virus is known to be transmitted by mosquitos.

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