Posted on 02/02/2016 3:20:19 PM PST by BenLurkin
The first known case of Zika virus transmission in the United States was reported in Texas on Tuesday by local health officials, who said it likely was contracted through sex and not a mosquito bite, a day after the World Health Organization declared an international public health emergency.
The virus, linked to severe birth defects in thousands of babies in Brazil, is spreading rapidly in the Americas, and WHO officials on Tuesday expressed concern that it could hit Africa and Asia as well. Zika had been thought to be spread by the bite of mosquitoes of the Aedes genus, so sexual contact as a mode of transmission would be a potentially alarming development.
Dallas County Health and Human Services said it received confirmation of the case in Dallas from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The county department said on Twitter that the person was infected through sexual contact with someone who had traveled to Venezuela. The person infected did not travel to the South American country, county health officials said.
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Just a couple summers of judicious application, and the problem should be moot, unless the disease can be serologically transmitted by mosquitoes from one infected person to another person. The STD aspect is not good, either, and it will be around to stay unless there is a vaccine developed or a cure.
I agree.
It never was free but the devil seems to have plenty fooled.
Wrong, there was reports tonite that it could lead to Guillian Barre syndrome. Poor lady that they showed was so spastic she could hardly use a walker.
Yes, the devil is having a field day of late.
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