Be Aware ! More Than 100 Cases Zika Virus Found in the United States

MASSAPEDIA NEWS - Epidemic of Zika virus centered in Latin America and the Caribbean, began to spread to the United States. It confirmed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention USA (CDC)

In a report that published last week, the CDC calls Zika there are 116 confirmed cases in the United States. In the report, there is a case of microcephaly.

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The report that published by CDC includes examination and laboratory tests for one year, from January 1, 2015 until February 26, 2016. However, more than 75 percent of new patients reported symptoms of Zika in early 2016. Patients come from all walks of life and various ages, ranging from newborn with microcephaly cases up to adults aged 81 years.

Approximately 10 percent of patients in the US are positive Zika. Theya are children and adolescents. While 65 per cent of cases suffered by women.

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The patients who are confirmed nationals of the 33 US states, including Washington DC. They all reported outbreaks had traveled to the area Zika or intercourse with those who are traveling to the area.

The women were positive for Zika are those traveling to the area Zika outbreak. While babies are born with microcephaly, predictable because the mother attacked Zika in the first trimester of pregnancy, during a visit to the area Zika outbreak.

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Zika outbreak countries visited by US patients are Haiti, El Salvador, Colombia, Honduras and Guatemala.

CDC reported cases of Zika happens in the US is not because of a mosquito bite that is endemic in the land of Uncle Sam.

"All the cases occurred when the patient visits the local outbreak of Zika and not caused by mosquito bites in the United States," the CDC report, as quoted by the website Live Science.

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"The patients experience symptoms between 37 days before returning to the US for up to 11 days after arriving in the US."

Although Zika does not cause chronic symptoms in adults, but the CDC worrisome linkage Zika infection with microcephaly cases, where the baby was born with a size smaller head circumference than normal and cause impaired brain development as well as the baby's motor.

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Zika positive all patients reported clinical symptoms such as rash, fever, and joint pain. Other symptoms are headache, muscle pains and kongjungtivitis or inflammation of the lining of the eye.

Of all patients, as many as four people have received medical treatment in hospital. But there has been no reports of deaths.