Six pregnant women tested positive for Zika in Texas according to : Pulse Headlines

Six pregnant women in Texas have tested positive for Zika, according to health authorities' announcement on Thursday. For that reason, alarms were raised as the six pregnant women tested positive for Zika in Texas. Zika cases have dropped in the U.S, but pregnant women must remain vigilantAccording to the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there is a drop in Zika cases across the continental U.S. The CDC recently recommended pregnant women to postpone travels to Cameron County in South Texas and Miami Dade County in south Florida. 206 of these cases were pregnant women, according to Texas Department of State Health Services spokesman Chris Van Deusen.




NAGPUR: The national president of the Indian Medical Association (IMA) has called for screening of all pregnant women for Zika virus as a precautionary and vigilance measure against the disease. In addition to this, 18,000 Ades aegypti mosquitoes were tested, including 500 from Bapunagar area in Ahmedabad where two positive cases were found.Three persons, including two women, were tested positive for the Zika virus. "Three cases have been reported from India despite none of these travelling to any other country known for presence of the Zika virus. "Epidemiology says that for every single positive case, there are 200 subclinical cases that are not reported. Since there are no symptoms of the disease, except for some viral fever like signs, should the disease we ignored so easily?

At least 29 pregnant women in Lancaster County infected by or exposed to Zika

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