ROCK HILL, SC –ABC COLUMBIA’S Amanda Fitzpatrick reports. York County announcing it’s first case of the Zika virus, bringing the total to 18 cases in South Carolina. Chuck Haynes with Emergency Management in York County says, “The Zika virus is not in the mosquito population, it is only in one person that traveled to a country that has Zika.” Zika…
In this Feb. 11, 2016, file photo of aedes aegypti mosquitoes are seen in a mosquito cage at a laboratory in Cucuta, Colombia. Ricardo Mazalan/AP Photo The Zika virus has been documented for the first time to have been transmitted from a woman to a man through sexual contact, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease…
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COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO)– The centers for Disease Control is helping South Carolina battle the Zika Virus. The group is awarding South Carolina 343 Thousand Dollars as part o it’s 25 million in funding to states, cities to support efforts to protect Americans from Zika virus infection. Categories: News Tags: Zika
In this May 23, 2016, file photo, an Aedes aegypti mosquito sits inside a glass tube at the Fiocruz institute where they have been screening for mosquitos naturally infected with the Zika virus in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Felipe Dana/AP Photo (ABC News) – A U.S. company has announced the first clinical trial of a Zika vaccine intended to prevent…
Three babies with birth defects caused by Zika have been born in the U.S., the government reported Thursday in its first accounting of pregnancy outcomes involving the virus. Birth defects from Zika were also seen in three other pregnancies that ended. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been tracking the pregnancies of women with Zika infections since the…
Dr. Ihor Sawczuk, center, and Dr. Abdulla Al-Khan, right, watch as Dr. Julia Piwoz speaks during a news conference at the Hackensack University Medical Center, June 1, 2016, in Hackensack, N.J. An infant born with microcephaly in the New Jersey on Tuesday was delivered via emergency cesarean section and remains on intravenous nutrition, doctors said today. The infant is only…
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Federal health officials today said they believe “thousands” of people may have contracted the Zika virus before returning to the U.S. as they remain concerned that the virus might start to have ongoing transmission in the U.S. Speaking at a panel at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director at the Centers for Disease…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today that there have been a few significant changes in the way it will be monitoring the number of women with Zika virus infections in the United States and U.S. territories. Beginning now, the CDC will report the number of pregnant women with Zika virus infection from two new surveillance systems:…
