Thursday, January 28, 2016 1:47:03 PM
Asian tiger, Florida to Connecticut. west to Illinois joins yellow-fever mosquito as a 2nd possible vector of the
Zika virus .. some 3 doz cases in 11 US states confirmed so far .. experts divided on danger to USA .. bits ..
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One of the biggest problems in researching the possible link between Zika and cases of birth defects has to do with the widespread presence of dengue disease in the countries with high Zika infection, said Lyle Petersen, director of CDC’s vector-borne disease division. Humans produce antibodies in response to both viruses, but current tests cannot differentiate between them.
“In people with previous dengue exposure, there’s no test to be able to sort that out,” Petersen explained.
Past outbreaks of Zika occurred among small populations in the Pacific islands, and uncommon kinds of birth defects were not noticed right away. After Brazil began reporting increased prevalence of microcephaly last October, authorities in French Polynesia went back and analyzed their 2013-2014 Zika outbreak involving more than 30,000 people. They found an increase in microcephaly cases and of Guillain-Barré syndrome
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-the-united-states-is-vulnerable-to-spread-of-zika-virus/2016/01/26/a8c6a9b4-c440-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce_story.html
WHO warns the virus could infect more than 3 million. Meeting Monday.
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Zika: What is it and should you be worried about it?
Written by Annalisa Merelli
Katherine Ellen Foley
January 27, 2016
Less than a year and a half since Ebola terrified the world, a new viral pandemic has emerged.
http://qz.com/601302/zika-what-is-it-and-should-you-be-worried-about-it/
Zika virus .. some 3 doz cases in 11 US states confirmed so far .. experts divided on danger to USA .. bits ..
[...]
One of the biggest problems in researching the possible link between Zika and cases of birth defects has to do with the widespread presence of dengue disease in the countries with high Zika infection, said Lyle Petersen, director of CDC’s vector-borne disease division. Humans produce antibodies in response to both viruses, but current tests cannot differentiate between them.
“In people with previous dengue exposure, there’s no test to be able to sort that out,” Petersen explained.
Past outbreaks of Zika occurred among small populations in the Pacific islands, and uncommon kinds of birth defects were not noticed right away. After Brazil began reporting increased prevalence of microcephaly last October, authorities in French Polynesia went back and analyzed their 2013-2014 Zika outbreak involving more than 30,000 people. They found an increase in microcephaly cases and of Guillain-Barré syndrome
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-the-united-states-is-vulnerable-to-spread-of-zika-virus/2016/01/26/a8c6a9b4-c440-11e5-8965-0607e0e265ce_story.html
WHO warns the virus could infect more than 3 million. Meeting Monday.
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Zika: What is it and should you be worried about it?
Written by Annalisa Merelli
Katherine Ellen Foley
January 27, 2016
Less than a year and a half since Ebola terrified the world, a new viral pandemic has emerged.
http://qz.com/601302/zika-what-is-it-and-should-you-be-worried-about-it/
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