First U.S. Zika virus transmission reported, attributed to sex - The aboriginal accepted case of Zika virus manual in the United States was appear in Texas on Tuesday by bounded bloom officials, who said it acceptable was apprenticed through sex and not a mosquito bite, a day afterwards the World Bloom Organization declared an all-embracing accessible bloom emergency.
The virus, affiliated to astringent bearing defects in bags of babies in Brazil, is overextension rapidly in the Americas, and WHO admiral on Tuesday bidding affair that it could hit Africa and Asia as well. Zika had been anticipation to be advance by the chaw of mosquitoes of the Aedes genus, so animal acquaintance as a approach of manual would be a potentially alarming development.
Dallas Canton Bloom and Human Services said it accustomed acceptance of the case in Dallas from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The canton administration said on Twitter that the getting was adulterated through animal acquaintance with anyone who had catholic to Venezuela. The getting adulterated did not biking to the South American country, canton bloom admiral said.
The Texas Administration of Accompaniment Bloom Services was hardly added alert in its assessment, adage in a statement, "Case data are getting evaluated, but the achievability of animal manual from an adulterated getting to a non-infected getting is acceptable in this case."
County authorities said there were no letters of the virus getting locally transmitted by mosquitoes in the Texas county.
A CDC agent accepted the after-effects of a analysis for Zika infection but said bounded admiral advised the approach of transmission.
Previously, all-embracing bloom admiral had acclaimed one case of accessible person-to-person animal transmission. But the Pan American Bloom Organization said added affirmation was bare to affirm animal acquaintance as a agency of Zika transmission. The medical abstract aswell has one case in which the virus was detected in semen.
The virus has been appear in added than 30 countries and affiliated to microcephaly, in which babies accept abnormally baby active and break developed brains.
The Dow Jones busline boilerplate concluded 2.9 percent lower afterward account of the aboriginal U.S. manual of the Zika virus.
MONITORING NEEDED
The WHO has said the virus could affect 4 actor humans in the Americas. It said on Tuesday it launched a all-around acknowledgment assemblage to action the mosquito-borne virus.
"Most important, we charge to set up surveillance sites in low- and middle-income countries so that we can ascertain any change in the advertisement patterns of microcephaly at an aboriginal stage," Dr. Anthony Costello said in Geneva. Costello is WHO's administrator for maternal, boyish and boyish health.
Twenty to 30 sites could be accustomed worldwide, mainly in poor countries afterwards able-bodied healthcare systems.
Brazil is the country hardest hit by Zika. In an abode to a collective affair of Brazil's Congress, President Dilma Rousseff said her government will additional no assets in mobilizing to action the mosquito that transmits the virus. With no vaccine or analysis for Zika, efforts to barrier its advance accept focused on eradicating mosquito ancestry sites.
Brazil, which has 3,700 doubtable cases of microcephaly that may be affiliated to Zika, is appointed to host the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in August.
Rousseff aswell said Brazil and the United States will access a affiliation to advance a Zika vaccine as anon as accessible to axis the advance of the virus.
VACCINE EFFORTS
French drugmaker Sanofi SA on Tuesday appear that it has launched a activity to advance a vaccine adjoin the virus, the a lot of absolute charge yet by a above vaccine maker. The aggregation said its Sanofi Pasteur vaccines analysis would use its ability in developing vaccines for agnate bacilli such as chicken fever, Japanese encephalitis and dengue.
Other companies aswell abutting the chase on Tuesday to advance a vaccine. The University of South Australia said it was alive on a Zika vaccine with Australian biotech Sementis Ltd.
U.S. biologic developer NewLink Genetics Corp said it has started a activity to advance Zika analysis options.
Experts accept said a Zika vaccine for boundless use is months if not years away.
Costello said the Aedes mosquitoes that backpack the Zika virus "are present ... through Africa, locations of southern Europe and abounding locations of Asia, decidedly South Asia." Africa and Asia accept the world's accomplished bearing rates.
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said on Monday it was "strongly doubtable but not yet scientifically proven" that Zika causes microcephaly.
The aboriginal Irish cases of Zika virus accept been detected in two humans with a history of traveling to a country afflicted by the mosquito-borne infection, the Bloom Account Executive of Ireland said.
Chilean bloom admiral said they accept accepted three cases in Chile of humans adulterated with the Zika virus, all of whom were adulterated while traveling abroad in Latin America.
An Australian accompaniment bloom account said two Australians were diagnosed with the virus afterwards abiding from the Caribbean, acknowledging the aboriginal cases of the virus in the country this year.
Dallas Canton Bloom and Human Services said it accustomed acceptance of the case in Dallas from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The canton administration said on Twitter that the getting was adulterated through animal acquaintance with anyone who had catholic to Venezuela. The getting adulterated did not biking to the South American country, canton bloom admiral said.
The Texas Administration of Accompaniment Bloom Services was hardly added alert in its assessment, adage in a statement, "Case data are getting evaluated, but the achievability of animal manual from an adulterated getting to a non-infected getting is acceptable in this case."
County authorities said there were no letters of the virus getting locally transmitted by mosquitoes in the Texas county.
A CDC agent accepted the after-effects of a analysis for Zika infection but said bounded admiral advised the approach of transmission.
Previously, all-embracing bloom admiral had acclaimed one case of accessible person-to-person animal transmission. But the Pan American Bloom Organization said added affirmation was bare to affirm animal acquaintance as a agency of Zika transmission. The medical abstract aswell has one case in which the virus was detected in semen.
The virus has been appear in added than 30 countries and affiliated to microcephaly, in which babies accept abnormally baby active and break developed brains.
The Dow Jones busline boilerplate concluded 2.9 percent lower afterward account of the aboriginal U.S. manual of the Zika virus.
MONITORING NEEDED
The WHO has said the virus could affect 4 actor humans in the Americas. It said on Tuesday it launched a all-around acknowledgment assemblage to action the mosquito-borne virus.
"Most important, we charge to set up surveillance sites in low- and middle-income countries so that we can ascertain any change in the advertisement patterns of microcephaly at an aboriginal stage," Dr. Anthony Costello said in Geneva. Costello is WHO's administrator for maternal, boyish and boyish health.
Twenty to 30 sites could be accustomed worldwide, mainly in poor countries afterwards able-bodied healthcare systems.
Brazil is the country hardest hit by Zika. In an abode to a collective affair of Brazil's Congress, President Dilma Rousseff said her government will additional no assets in mobilizing to action the mosquito that transmits the virus. With no vaccine or analysis for Zika, efforts to barrier its advance accept focused on eradicating mosquito ancestry sites.
Brazil, which has 3,700 doubtable cases of microcephaly that may be affiliated to Zika, is appointed to host the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in August.
Rousseff aswell said Brazil and the United States will access a affiliation to advance a Zika vaccine as anon as accessible to axis the advance of the virus.
VACCINE EFFORTS
French drugmaker Sanofi SA on Tuesday appear that it has launched a activity to advance a vaccine adjoin the virus, the a lot of absolute charge yet by a above vaccine maker. The aggregation said its Sanofi Pasteur vaccines analysis would use its ability in developing vaccines for agnate bacilli such as chicken fever, Japanese encephalitis and dengue.
Other companies aswell abutting the chase on Tuesday to advance a vaccine. The University of South Australia said it was alive on a Zika vaccine with Australian biotech Sementis Ltd.
U.S. biologic developer NewLink Genetics Corp said it has started a activity to advance Zika analysis options.
Experts accept said a Zika vaccine for boundless use is months if not years away.
Costello said the Aedes mosquitoes that backpack the Zika virus "are present ... through Africa, locations of southern Europe and abounding locations of Asia, decidedly South Asia." Africa and Asia accept the world's accomplished bearing rates.
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan said on Monday it was "strongly doubtable but not yet scientifically proven" that Zika causes microcephaly.
The aboriginal Irish cases of Zika virus accept been detected in two humans with a history of traveling to a country afflicted by the mosquito-borne infection, the Bloom Account Executive of Ireland said.
Chilean bloom admiral said they accept accepted three cases in Chile of humans adulterated with the Zika virus, all of whom were adulterated while traveling abroad in Latin America.
An Australian accompaniment bloom account said two Australians were diagnosed with the virus afterwards abiding from the Caribbean, acknowledging the aboriginal cases of the virus in the country this year.
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