By Robert Preidt
HealthDay Reporter
THURSDAY, Dec. 15, 2016 (HealthDay Information) -- Pregnant girls ought to keep away from touring to a south Texas city that sits on the state's border with Mexico, as a result of 5 circumstances of native Zika an infection have been reported there, U.S. well being officers suggested Wednesday.
The city of Brownsville remains to be experiencing temperatures which are heat sufficient for mosquitoes to proceed to breed, in response to the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. Zika is transmitted primarily by way of the chunk of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, though it can be unfold by sexual contact.
"We're recommending pregnant girls not journey to Brownsville, and in the event that they do journey to that space, to make sure that they keep away from mosquito bites they usually keep away from the chance of sexual transmission," the CDC's Dr. Denise Jamieson stated in an company information launch. "And that once they return from the world, that they bear testing for Zika virus an infection."
Not one of the Brownsville circumstances contain pregnant girls, officers added.
Whereas most adults who're contaminated with the Zika virus expertise delicate signs, an infection throughout being pregnant can have catastrophic penalties for infants. Hundreds of infants have been born in Brazil and Colombia with microcephaly, a delivery defect that ends in an abnormally small head and an underdeveloped mind.
In the USA, CDC officers have tallied 32 circumstances of Zika-linked delivery defects in infants. Most of these circumstances resulted from infections picked up in Zika-prone international locations in Latin America and the Caribbean
In the meantime, the CDC urges warning and vigilance.
"We're working intently with Texas to assemble and analyze new info every single day. With the brand new info that there was native unfold of Zika for at the very least a number of weeks, we conclude that pregnant girls ought to keep away from the Brownsville space -- and make each effort to forestall mosquito bites in the event that they dwell or work there," stated Dr. Tom Frieden, director of the CDC. "Along with Texas officers, we're working to guard pregnant girls from the possibly devastating results of this virus."
Florida is the one different U.S. state that has reported native circumstances of Zika an infection. However that state was just lately declared Zika-free after 45 days handed with none new infections within the final lively zone, situated in South Miami Seashore.
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As of Dec. 7, a complete of 1,172 Zika infections within the continental United States have concerned pregnant girls, in response to CDC estimates.
On Wednesday, new analysis from CDC scientists estimated that 6 % of contaminated pregnant girls could have infants who're born with Zika-linked delivery defects, with the primary and second trimesters being essentially the most susceptible interval for maternal an infection. Their findings have been reported within the Journal of the American Medical Affiliation.
The CDC urges residents -- particularly pregnant girls -- to take steps to guard themselves from mosquito bites. They need to use an insect repellent registered by the Environmental Safety Company containing one of many following components: DEET, picaridin, IR3535, oil of lemon eucalyptus or para-menthane-diol, or 2-undecanone. They need to additionally put on long-sleeved shirts and lengthy pants, use or restore screens on home windows and doorways, use air con when accessible, and take away standing water inside and outdoors the place mosquitoes can lay eggs.
The CDC additionally says:
- Zika is unfold to individuals primarily by the chunk of contaminated Aedes species mosquitoes, that are present in Brownsville.
- A pregnant lady can cross Zika virus to her fetus throughout being pregnant or delivery.
- An individual contaminated with Zika virus can cross it on to intercourse companions.
- No vaccines or therapies are presently accessible to deal with or stop Zika infections.
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