The US Centers for Disease Control and Preventionhas confirmed Zika infections in nine pregnant women in the United States , all of whom contracted the virus while traveling . Three child have already been born — one with a brain defect .
Earlier today , the CDC enunciate that of the nine cases of US fraught travelers infected with Zika , one deliver a child with birth defects , though the exact details were not disclosed . In the other casing , two miscarry , two opted for abortions , and three resulted in live births . The two current maternity are continuing without known complication . The CDC is also investigating ten other possible cases .
Zika is in the main transmitted by mosquito , but it can also go around through sexual contact lens . The new account suggests that sexual transmission of the virus is more usual than previously assumed .

“ We did not expect to see these nous abnormalities in this modest slip serial publication of US pregnant travelers,”notedthe CDC ’s Denise Jamieson in a conference call . “ So it is unexpected and greater than what we would have expected . ”
The nine woman had trip to place where Zika infection are currently combat-ready , including American Samoa , Brazil , El Salvador , Guatemala , Haiti , Honduras , Mexico , Puerto Rico and Samoa .
Earlier this workweek , the CDC said it wasinvestigating 14 theme of Zikathat may have been sexually send , let in to several fraught adult female . Yesterday , a report card in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseasesdescribed a casein which traces of the Zika computer virus was discovered in a unsuccessful infant with almost no Einstein tissue , betoken that it can conduct to more severe brain terms than microcephaly .

Zika has yet to be confirm as the cause of microcephaly , but it ’s looking increasingly likely .
[ Reuters , ABC ]
BiologyEPIDEMICSScienceZikaZika Virus

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