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U.S. bloom admiral accept afresh broadcast their biking active to abundant women about trips to the Caribbean and Latin America.
The Centers for Ache Control and Prevention on Tuesday added the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Dominican Republic to the account of destinations with Zika virus ache outbreaks. Research in Brazil is suggesting a hotlink amid the infection in abundant moms and a attenuate bearing defect.
Previously, the CDC recommended that abundant women should accede apathetic trips to 22 destinations. In Latin America: Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Suriname and Venezuela. In the Caribbean: Barbados, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Martinique, St. Martin and Puerto Rico. Also, Cape Verde, off the bank of western Africa; and Samoa in the South Pacific.
Health authorities in Panama are advising that associates of an aboriginal association hard-hit by Zika abstain accepting pregnant.
At atomic 42 cases of the mosquito-borne virus accept been detected in the sparsely busy arena of Guna Yala forth the Caribbean coast, one of them a 22-year-old abundant woman. The breadth aforetime accepted as San Blas is bedeviled by aboriginal groups and accepted with tourists.
Israel Cedeno, a Bloom Ministry expert, said that authorities are traveling house-to-house answer how to anticipate manual but that it's active up adjoin cultural barriers and the abridgement of ancestors planning a part of the Guna tribe.
The Arkansas Administration of Bloom says a getting who afresh catholic out of the United States has activated absolute for the Zika virus.
The administration says that the getting has a balmy case of Zika, which is advance by mosquitoes and is doubtable of causing a access of bearing defects in Brazil. Spokeswoman Meg Mirivel would not say whether Tuesday if the adulterated getting is a man or woman or accord the person's age.
Mirivel says the alone catholic to the Central America-Caribbean region, admitting she would not specify which country. Some U.S. travelers accept been adulterated away with Zika but there are no cases of bounded infection in the U.S. so far.
Brazilian admiral accept affiliated the virus with a attenuate bearing defect, and the U.S. Centers for Ache Control and Prevention accept apprenticed abundant women to accede apathetic flights to areas breadth the virus is prevalent.
Latin America's better airline says it's waiving abandoning or flight-change fees for abundant women who wish to abolish flights to countries breadth the Zika virus is present.
Grupo LATAM says the action applies to Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, French Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Suriname and Venezuela.
The U.S. Centers for Ache Control and Prevention has apprenticed abundant women to accede apathetic visits to 22 destinations because of affair that the mosquito-borne virus could be affiliated to a beachcomber in Brazil of microcephaly cases in which accouchement are built-in with active that are abate than accustomed and generally accept adorning problems.
The World Bloom Organization cautions that the hotlink is not yet scientifically proven.
Colombian admiral are adopting the amount of doubtable cases of the Zika virus in their country. They say 16,490 humans now allegedly accept had the ache that's been affiliated to bearing defects in Brazil. Of those 1,090 are abundant women.
The new abstracts appear as bloom abbot begins a civic accomplishment to assemblage bounded admiral to action the Aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits the virus.
Minister Alejandro Gaviria said Tuesday he hopes Colombia will become "an archetype for Latin America" in the action adjoin Zika.
President Juan Manuel Santo has said Colombian admiral apprehend to see 600,000 cases of Zika this year, and are advancing for the achievability of breed built-in with microcephaly, a bearing birthmark that has skyrocketed in Brazil forth with cases of Zika.
So far, there's alone one case of microcephaly in Colombia doubtable of getting affiliated to Zika.
The U.S. breadth of Puerto Rico is advertisement a jump in the amount of mosquito-borne Zika virus cases.
Health Secretary Ana Rius says there are 18 accepted new cases in accession to one accepted earlier. None absorb abundant women. Brazilian admiral accept affiliated the close affliction to bearing defects.
Puerto Rico epidemiologist Brenda Rivera said Tuesday the majority of cases are in the island's southeast region. She says abounding of the victims are elderly.
Officials said they are testing added than 200 added abeyant Zika cases that accept activated abrogating to dengue and chikungunya.
U.S. admiral say abundant women should accede apathetic trips to 22 destinations with Zika infections, including Puerto Rico.
U.S. bloom admiral are putting out admonition to doctors on testing newborns for Zika virus, a close infection affiliated to a beachcomber of bearing defects in Brazil.
The admonition is for doctors caring for breed built-in to mothers who catholic to Zika beginning areas in Latin America or the Caribbean during their pregnancy. The admonition covers which situations alarm for Zika testing and if to do fetal ultrasounds.
The Centers for Ache Control and Prevention appear the guidelines Tuesday.
Zika is advance by mosquitoes, and in a lot of humans causes no added than balmy illness. But there's been ascent affirmation bond Zika infection in abundant women to a bearing birthmark in which a newborn's arch is almighty baby and the academician may not advance properly.
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Argentina authorities say they are investigating a accessible case of infection by the mosquito-borne Zika virus. It would be a aboriginal for the nation that shares a bound with Brazil.
Santa Fe Bloom Administration official Andrea Uboldi tells La Red radio that the man is in the city-limits of Rosario and had afresh visited Brazil, breadth hundreds of bags of cases of Zika are doubtable and authorities are investigating a accessible hotlink to bearing defects.
Meanwhile, admiral in the Argentine arena of Corrientes accept declared an epidemiological active due to an beginning of dengue in the area. Dengue and Zika are both transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
The account on Puerto Rico has been adapted to agenda that there was a antecedent case. The absolute is now 19.
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