CDC: 19 pregnant women in US may have Zika vIrus

Mar 01, 2016, 16:34

Atlanta, GA: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Fortunately, Zika virus infection is typically mild, and people recover without incident".

And a third gave birth to a child with with microcephaly - a birth defect where babies are born with abnormally small heads.

A major outbreak of the virus began in Brazil previous year and has spread to many countries in the Americas.

Approximately half a million pregnant women are estimated to travel to the United States annually from the 32 (as of February 18, 2016) Zika-affected countries and USA territories with active transmission of Zika virus.

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The first official report on Zika among pregnant USA travelers adds urgency to warnings last month that pregnant women should delay travel to areas of Latin America and the Caribbean where the mosquito-borne virus is rapidly spreading.

Montana is one of 25 states now reporting a travel-associated case of Zika. Details were not provided for the second case.

Two of the women miscarried, and two elected to terminate their pregnancies. Non-pregnant travelers with Zika symptoms are also be eligible for testing and may discuss this option with their healthcare provider.

"What's clear is that of the six women who were infected in the first trimester, two had spontaneous miscarriages and at least two or three had infants who were severely affected by microcephaly", said CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden. She was not pregnant during her illness.

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Brazil is one of thirty places for which the CDC has issued a travel alert. CDC's travel guidance for the Olympics covers a variety of health and safety topics, including information about the Zika virus outbreak now occurring in Brazil. Infected men who have unprotected sex with pregnant women can pass the virus to their partners and potentially harm a developing fetus.

Women who are trying to become pregnant should talk to their doctors before making the trip, the CDC advised. No Zika virus-related hospitalizations or deaths among pregnant women were reported.

"If you take 10 people and infect them with Zika, eight of them will never even know they had it and they'll develop immunity".

The CDC did not reveal the home states of any of the women.

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The county is working to make sure that transmission never begins and is asking the public to eliminate standing pools of water where mosquitoes may breed and also to wear long-sleeved clothing, or mosquito repellant, if the bugs are present. They are investigating more than a dozen possible Zika infections that may have been spread through sex.