By Robert Preidt
HealthDay Reporter
FRIDAY, Dec. 9, 2016 (HealthDay Information) -- The tragedy of lots of of infants born with devastating beginning defects linked to the Zika virus is now not confined to Brazil, a brand new report confirms.
Colombia is now additionally experiencing a surge in these instances of toddler microcephaly. It is a beginning defect the place newborns whose moms contracted the mosquito-borne virus in being pregnant are born with too-small skulls and underdeveloped brains.
A crew led by Margaret Honein, of the U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, reported that between Jan. 31, 2016 and mid-November 2016, there have been 476 instances of microcephaly in Colombia, a fourfold enhance from the identical interval in 2015.
There have been 9 instances as many instances of microcephaly in July 2016 than in July 2015, the researchers mentioned.
And since Colombia's surveillance of beginning defects depends on voluntary reporting, the brand new information "possible underestimates the precise prevalence of beginning defects, together with these defects related to Zika virus an infection throughout being pregnant," Honein's crew mentioned.
The findings present that a rise in microcephaly instances is just not restricted to Brazil, and that different international locations with Zika outbreaks are prone to have massive will increase in microcephaly and different Zika-related beginning defects, the CDC mentioned.
The examine additionally discovered that the height in instances of microcephaly in Colombia occurred about six months after the best variety of new Zika infections had been reported. This implies that the best danger for Zika-related microcephaly possible arises within the first half of being pregnant -- particularly the primary trimester and early within the second trimester.
Between Aug. 9, 2015 and Nov. 12, 2016, there have been about 105,000 instances of Zika virus in Colombia, together with almost 20,000 instances involving pregnant girls.
In accordance with the most recent figures from the CDC, there have to date been 32 instances of Zika-related beginning defects to live-born infants within the 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
Nevertheless, there's additionally some excellent news on Zika in america: On Friday the CDC declared that the state of Florida is now freed from the Zika virus.
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One space in south Miami Seashore had remained an lively zone for native transmission of the virus. However the CDC mentioned in an announcement Friday that there have been no new instances of native Zika transmission in south Miami Seashore for greater than 45 days, in order that neighborhood is now not thought-about an lively zone.
However, Texas officers, who just lately reported a suspected case of native an infection, mentioned Friday that they've recognized 4 extra instances of suspected regionally transmitted Zika virus in Cameron County, close to the border with Mexico.
The Colombian examine was revealed Dec. 9 within the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
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