Posted on 02/03/2016 7:34:30 AM PST by redreno
Zika has been sexually transmitted in Texas, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday. It is the first known case of the virus being locally acquired in the continental United States in the current outbreak.
The case, announced by Dallas County health officials, involved a patient who had sex with someone who had recently returned from Venezuela infected with the mosquito-borne virus.
In a statement to CNN, the CDC said it confirmed the test results showing Zika present in the blood of a "nontraveler in the continental United States." They stressed that there was no risk to a developing fetus in this instance.
Based on that, the CDC says it will soon provide guidance on sexual transmission, with a "focus on the male sexual partners of women who are or who may be pregnant."
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Here we go again.
Some people have to read something two or three times before it sinks in.
www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?s=zika&ok=Search&q=quick&m=any&o=time
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3392046/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3391990/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3391925/posts
Sex, or close contact from sex, transmits nearly every disease that is transmittable.
Now we just have to stop mosquitoes from having sex!
DDT
I don’t understand why anyone would want to have sex with mosquitoes or, if they did, how they would do it. :^)
Questions concerning Zika due to all the hype.
If a person contacts Zika do they become immune to future cases? What about some woman has contacted it and later, after she is well, becomes pregnant.
Would the antibodies in her blood affect the child?
Would a vaccine be available for it and would the vaccine affect a pregnant mother and child?
I’ve read that Zika is not new but has been around for years, but is just now in the news.
Somewhere here, I suspect there’s a “doing the work Americans won’t do” rationality, at least on the Venezuelan visitor’s part.
Plenty of illegal immigration from south of the border involves prostitution, not always voluntary on the woman’s part.
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