Post by pavel on Jan 28, 2016 6:32:47 GMT -6
ST. CROIX — The Centers for Disease Control on Tuesday added the US Virgin Islands and the Dominican Republic to its list of destinations that travelers should avoid. The move comes as the Zika virus — a tropical disease that may lead to babies being born with abnormally small heads, and also causes paralysis in adults — continues to spread throughout the Caribbean. The travel warning follows the territory’s first confirmed case on this island a week ago.
he news is already making headlines on the major US networks, including CNN, as new dangers posed by the virus are being rapidly discovered, including information of its spread, on rare occasions, through sex.
Below, find the short answers to the hard Zika virus questions, courtesy NY Times.
WHAT IS THE ZIKA VIRUS?
A tropical infection new to the Western Hemisphere.
The Zika virus is a mosquito-transmitted infection related to dengue, yellow fever and West Nile virus. Although it was discovered in the Zika forest in Uganda in 1947 and is common in Africa and Asia, it did not begin spreading widely in the Western Hemisphere until last May, when an outbreak occurred in Brazil.
Until now, almost no one on this side of the world had been infected. Few of us have immune defenses against the virus, so it is spreading rapidly. Millions of people in tropical regions of the Americas may have had it.
Read more: viconsortium.com/featured/cdc-warns-against-traveling-to-us-virgin-islands-as-zika-spreads/
he news is already making headlines on the major US networks, including CNN, as new dangers posed by the virus are being rapidly discovered, including information of its spread, on rare occasions, through sex.
Below, find the short answers to the hard Zika virus questions, courtesy NY Times.
WHAT IS THE ZIKA VIRUS?
A tropical infection new to the Western Hemisphere.
The Zika virus is a mosquito-transmitted infection related to dengue, yellow fever and West Nile virus. Although it was discovered in the Zika forest in Uganda in 1947 and is common in Africa and Asia, it did not begin spreading widely in the Western Hemisphere until last May, when an outbreak occurred in Brazil.
Until now, almost no one on this side of the world had been infected. Few of us have immune defenses against the virus, so it is spreading rapidly. Millions of people in tropical regions of the Americas may have had it.
Read more: viconsortium.com/featured/cdc-warns-against-traveling-to-us-virgin-islands-as-zika-spreads/