Sexually transmitted Zika case confirmed in US

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Sexually transmitted Zika case confirmed in Texas
JAMIE STENGLE, Associated Press

DALLAS (AP) — Health officials in Texas on Tuesday reported the first case of the Zika virus being transmitted within the United States amid the current outbreak in Latin America — a person who was infected through sex.

Dallas County health officials said the unidentified person had not traveled but had sex with a person who had returned from Venezuela and fallen ill with Zika, which has been linked to birth defects in the Americas. The virus is primarily spread through mosquito bites, but investigators had been exploring the possibility it could be sexually transmitted. There was a report of a Colorado researcher who picked up the virus in Africa and apparently spread it to his wife back home in 2008, and it was found in one man's semen in Tahiti.

"It's very rare, but this is not new," Zachary Thompson, director of the Dallas County Health and Human Services, told WFAA-TV in Dallas. "We always looked at the point that this could be transmitted sexually."

The CDC says it will issue guidance in the coming days on prevention of sexual transmission of Zika virus, focusing on the male sexual partners of women who are or may be pregnant. The CDC has already recommended that pregnant women postpone trips to more than two dozen countries with Zika outbreaks, mostly in Latin America and the Caribbean, including Venezuela. It also said other visitors should use insect repellent and take other precautions to prevent mosquito bites.

In the epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean, the main villain identified so far is called Aedes aegypti — a species of mosquito that spreads other tropical diseases, including chikungunya and dengue fever. It is found in the southern United States, though no mosquito-borne transmission has been reported in the continental United States to date. There have been about 30 cases in the U.S. in the last year, all travelers who brought it into the country.

The World Health Organization on Monday declared a global emergency over the rapidly spreading Zika virus, saying it is an "extraordinary event" that poses a threat to the rest of the world. The declaration was made after an emergency meeting of independent experts called in response to a spike in babies born with brain defects and abnormally small heads in Brazil since the virus was first found there last year.

WHO officials say it could be six to nine months before science proves or disproves any connection between the virus and babies born with abnormally small heads.

The CDC said that in the recent Texas case, there's no risk to a developing fetus.

Zika was first identified in 1947 in Uganda. It wasn't believed to cause any serious effects until last year; about 80 percent of infected people never experience symptoms.

The most common symptoms are fever, rash, joint pain and red eyes. The illness is usually mild with symptoms lasting several days to a week. Symptoms usually start two days to a week after being bitten by an infected mosquito.

While Thompson told the television station that the case of sexual transmission is "a game-changer," he added that he didn't want people in Dallas County to overreact. Health officials and Thompson noted that sexual partners can protect themselves by using condoms to prevent spreading sexually transmitted infections.
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Associated Press writer Mike Stobbe in New York contributed to this report.


-- (c) Associated Press 2016-02-03

[Whyamiandwhatamidoinghere]

Inflatable doll stock will take a sharp rise...

[happy pattaya man]

Sex with a mozzie....what ever next?

[Miami Bob]

Here is different perspective on Zika readers of this story might find interesting.

https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/02/02/zika-biggest-news-service-in-america-absolutely-clueless/

[Andaman Al]

Here is different perspective on Zika readers of this story might find interesting.

https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/02/02/zika-biggest-news-service-in-america-absolutely-clueless/

Thanks for that, very interesting.

As HIV/Aids hasn't killed as many people as those into Eugenics would have hoped, maybe this story was the precursor to the mass release of another man made virus designed to do a better job. After all we now are told it is sexually transmitted (from a mosquito bite !) and what better way to ensure population control by terrifying the population in to thinking they may give birth to babies with small heads and small brains that would need a lifetime of care and support.

So when are they going to colonise Mars? Can I volunteer please.

[OMGImInPattaya]

Another reason ladyboy attraction is to be preferred...no danger of producing babies afflicted with microencepholphy.

Edited February 3, 2016 by OMGImInPattaya

[Andaman Al]

Another reason ladyboy attraction is to be preferred...no danger of producing babies afflicted with microencepholphy.

[how241]

Miami Bob, on 03 Feb 2016 - 18:13, said:

Here is different perspective on Zika readers of this story might find interesting.

https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2016/02/02/zika-biggest-news-service-in-america-absolutely-clueless/

Thanks for the link.

[GOLDBUGGY]

God! That is all we needed and another Sexually Transmitted Disease that kills you. All we had to worry about as a teen was getting the Clap that could kill you. The Clap didn't kill you. But your Girl Friend did.

[connda]

Oh cool. A GMO manufactured epidemic to cull the masses. Pass out the vaccines to the elites. For the rest of us, more GMO mosquitos carrying GMO viruses. Of course, I'm cheering for an X75 Class Solar event that hit's the Grand Reset button, takes out the freaking elites with everyone else, and puts the Earth back to the pristine condition of the past: The Third Rock from the Sun sans intelligent life.

[connda]

God! That is all we needed and another Sexually Transmitted Disease that kills you. All we had to worry about as a teen was getting the Clap that could kill you. The Clap didn't kill you. But your Girl Friend did.

Yeah, a trip to Tijuana in the good old days was cured with a couple of APCs, a shot of Tequila, and a shot of penicillin.

[Somtamnication]

So the aids virus was said to have been originally transmitted from a chimp to a human, 30 years ago. DId someone have sex with a mosquito?

[overherebc]

If a mosquito with Zika bites a monkey with HIV which in turn bites a chicken with Avian flu and ground chicken bones are eaten by a cow in it's feed and the cow has mad cow disease and the cow scraps are fed to a pig that has swine fever and we eat the undercooked pork chops I would say we're doomed Captain Mannering ,A tell ye DOOMED.