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RED ALRET RED ALERT RED ALERT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ZIKA BIG NEWS: said Dr. Erin Staples, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiologist who's helping in the investigation. "......have seen with more than 1,300 travel-associated cases of Zika in the continental United States and Hawaii, non-sexual spread from one person to another does not appear to be common."
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in other words zika is infecting ppl not thru mosquitos n not via sex. if this thing is airborne or transering via saliva,blood,mucus,etc, the population is goina take a BIGGGG HITTT. remember the DEAGLE REPORT!!!????

Terrifying and intriguing news reports out of Utah about the Zika virus. I myself have not been too concerned over the virus as I have followed it, but this case in Utah really makes you stop and wonder. Super Zika?

From the CDC

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CDC is assisting in the investigation of a case of Zika in a Utah resident who is a family contact of the elderly Utah resident who died in late June. The deceased patient had traveled to an area with Zika and lab tests showed he had uniquely high amounts of virus—more than 100,000 times higher than seen in other samples of infected people—in his blood. Laboratories in Utah and at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported evidence of Zika infection in both Utah residents.

State and local public health disease control specialists, along with CDC, are investigating how the second resident became infected. The investigation includes additional interviews with and laboratory testing of family members and health care workers who may have had contact with the person who died and trapping mosquitoes and assessing the risk of local spread by mosquitoes.

FYI another Pacific flight for the virus couriers

Unusual US Zika virus case baffles experts

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Experts are trying to work out exactly how a US carer has caught Zika after tending to a dying elderly man with the virus.

Until now it was thought that only mosquitoes and sex spread Zika, as well as the risk of mother-to-child transmission in the womb.

The carer, from Utah, did not have any of these known risk factors.

US officials say they are monitoring the situation carefully and carrying out more tests.

They stress that the chance of spread from one person to another without sexual contact is still very unlikely or rare.

The Centres for Disease Control says the patient, who died in June, had travelled to an area where Zika-infected mosquitoes are present.

Lab tests showed he had uniquely high amounts of the virus - more than 100,000 times higher than seen in other samples from infected people - in his blood.

The CDC has sent out an emergency response team to investigate.

Twist in Zika Outbreak: New York Case Shows Women Can Spread It to Men

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The first case of female-to-male sexual transmission of the Zika virus has been documented in New York City, raising the prospect that the disease could spread more widely beyond the countries where it is already endemic and largely transmitted by mosquitoes.

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Florida May Have its First Zika Virus Outbreak

Zika Virus May Remain in Semen Longer Than Previously Thought

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The Zika virus has been found in one man's semen 93 days after he first reported symptoms, topping the previous known record of 62 days, according to a letter published in Lancet Infectious Diseases this month.

The patient, a 27-year-old man in France, came down with mild symptoms -- weakness, muscle pain and conjunctivitis -- shortly after returning from Thailand late last year. He had decided to freeze his sperm before an upcoming chemotherapy treatment, which led to a French laboratory testing his semen for Zika on March 9. While the virus was found in his semen, it was not found in his blood or urine.

After taking a detailed medical history, the authors of the letter were unable to identify other ways the man could have been infected. The virus is most commonly spread by a species of mosquito that is found in Thailand, but it may also be spread through sexual contact, contaminated blood or needle sticks.

Thailand does not have active transmission of the virus, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but it has reported sporadic cases of Zika since 2012, according to the Thai Ministry of Public Health.

Baby in Spain with Zika-caused microcephaly

The mother, who has not been identified, caught the virus on a trip abroad but authorities have declined to say where. A hospital source said she was infected in Latin America, where the virus is prevalent.

... A woman in Slovenia who was pregnant with a baby with microcephaly was previously found to have been carrying the virus, but she decided to have an abortion.

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Mosquitoes in Florida may now be spreading the Zika virus

Four new US cases are not linked to travel and health officials are looking at whether it’s down to mosquitoes
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Zika Cases Likely Transmitted Locally in U.S. for the First Time, Officials Say

“As we have anticipated, Zika is now here. Everything we’ve seen so far indicates to us that this is mosquito-borne transmission,” U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Frieden said Friday on a call with reporters. While the findings are concerning, and more cases could be found, health officials “don’t expect widespread transmission in the continental U.S.,” he said.

Yeah so the CDC says


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Expert to Rio athletes: "Don't put your head under water"

Just days ahead of the Olympic Games the waterways of Rio de Janeiro are as filthy as ever, contaminated with raw human sewage teeming with dangerous viruses and bacteria, according to a 16-month-long study commissioned by The Associated Press.

Not only are some 1,400 athletes at risk of getting violently ill in water competitions, but the AP's tests indicate that tourists also face potentially serious health risks on the golden beaches of Ipanema and Copacabana.

more [link to www.cbsnews.com]

The CDC appears to be on top of the Zika thing. This gives me great pause.

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Zika Prompts Travel Warning for Area in Miami

Officials fear mosquitoes in the area are carrying the Zika virus and may be resistant to insecticide.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended on Monday that pregnant women avoid unnecessary travel to an area near downtown Miami in light of new locally transmitted cases that surfaced over the weekend and the possibility that mosquitoes in the area may be resistant to insecticide.

Officials also recommended that anyone who had been to the area after June 15 should wait at least eight weeks before trying to conceive. The virus, which can be spread sexually as well as through mosquitoes, is believed to stay in semen for at least two months, so men who have had Zika should wait at least six months before trying to impregnate their partner, given that the virus causes the birth defect microcephaly, CDC said.

CDC is dispatching additional staff to Florida after the state's governor, Rick Scott, on Monday called for a federal emergency response team. Members of the team will be assisting with measures like lab testing and mosquito control. Officials believe the virus began spreading in a small area just north of downtown Miami in early July.

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didn't someone make a movie like this, except with big dinasaurs . . .


China's 'mosquito factory' aims to wipe out Zika, other diseases
Every week, scientists in southern China release 3 million bacteria-infected mosquitoes on a 3 km long island in a bid to wipe out diseases such as dengue, yellow fever and Zika.
The scientists inject mosquito eggs with wolbachia bacteria in a laboratory, then release infected male mosquitoes on the island on the outskirts of the city of Guangzhou.

more [link to www.todayonline.com]

South Carolina patient has rare ‘brain-eating’ amoeba, CDC confirms

A patient in South Carolina has tested positive for Naegleria fowleri, the so-called “brain-eating amoeba,” The Centers for Disease Control confirmed in a statement.

... “First, you must be swimming in water in which the amoeba is present,” she said. “Second, you must jump into the amoeba-containing water feet-first, allowing the water to go up your nose with enough force that the amoeba can make its way to the brain. Most commonly, exposure results in the amoeba dying before causing infection.

“You should avoid swimming or jumping into bodies of fresh water when the water is warm and the water levels are low. Also, you should either hold your nose or use a nose plug. You cannot be infected by merely drinking water containing the ameba,” Dr. Bell said.

The best way to avoid Naegleria fowleri is through prevention:
-- Avoid water-related activities in warm, untreated, or poorly treated water.
-- Hold your nose shut or use nose clips when taking part in water-related activities.
-- Avoid digging in or stirring up sediment surrounding warm, fresh water.

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What could possibly go wrong?

US Launches Experimental Zika Vaccine Clinical Trials
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OT but funny, montage video at link is different from the youtube vid posted below (Olympics) --

USA goalkeeper joked about Brazil being dangerous due to Zika. Every time she hit the ball, Brazil fans scream ZIKA.
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In Chicago for the day. ORD is full of CDC Zika advisories. On taxi ride back to airport, another cab to by with a roof top board that read #STOPZIKA More at cityofchicago.org/stopzika

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PUERTO RICO PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY ON ZIKA DECLARED BY HHS

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White House just declared a "public health emergency" in Puerto Rico because of Zika.

25% of residents expected to contract Zika this year.

Time to buy stock in DEET manufacturers.

Link? Can't find on ZH.

SHOCK: Texas Medicaid Prescribing Women and Children Toxic DEET to ‘Protect’ Against Zika
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Zika infection may affect adult brain cells


Concerns over the Zika virus have focused on pregnant women due to mounting evidence that it causes brain abnormalities in developing fetuses. However, new research in mice from scientists at The Rockefeller University and La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology suggests that certain adult brain cells may be vulnerable to infection as well. Among these are populations of cells that serve to replace lost or damaged neurons throughout adulthood, and are also thought to be critical to learning and memory.

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