Articles Tagged With: zika
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NIOSH, OSHA Guidance to Prevent Zika
As previously reported in Hospital Infection Control & Prevention, the spread of Zika virus in the U.S. calls for rigorous compliance with standard precautions and sharps safety in healthcare settings.
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Don't Panic - AHC Has Answers on Zika
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Zika Virus Update — What Do Your Patients Need to Know?
Approximately four in 10 (42%) U.S. adults in households in which someone is pregnant or considering becoming pregnant don’t realize the Zika virus can be sexually transmitted, according to results from a new national survey. The poll is part of an ongoing series of surveys focused on the public’s response to public health emergencies by the Harvard Opinion Research Program at the Boston-based Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Global Village: After Ebola and Zika, Patient Admitted to U.S. Hospital with Lassa Fever
As this issue went to press, the CDC confirmed that a patient admitted to Emory University Hospital’s Serious Communicable Diseases Unit has Lassa fever, a hemorrhagic virus endemic in parts of West Africa.
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Zika Update: U.S. Approaching 200 Cases
As confirmed cases of the Zika virus disease continue to mount in the United States, frontline providers are scrambling to ensure that appropriate patients are screened for the illness, and to minimize the risk of transmission, especially to pregnant women.
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Zika Virus: Effects on the Fetus
While the Zika virus has been indolent in many South American, Central American, and Caribbean countries, its recent association with microcephaly (and neurologic impairment) has created an outburst of media alerts, response from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and travel recommendations, particularly as the world moves closer to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Brazil.
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Zika infections: Obtain perspective on impact of virus and how to offer effective contraception to women
Zika infections are viral infections spread from an infected person by a mosquito called the Aedes aegypti mosquito. For the Zika infection to gain a foothold in an area of the world, it must be an area that sustains Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which is the case for all countries in our hemisphere, except for Canada, which is too cold, and Chile, which is too cold and too dry.
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Sexual transmission of Zika virus possible: Will it impact virus spread?
News of the rapid spread of the Zika virus through 18 Latin American countries and the Caribbean has captured headlines. The World Health Organization predicts that the virus could affect more than 4 million people in the Americas in 2016 alone.
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Preventing Sexual Transmission of Zika, Case in Dallas Prompts CDC guidelines
It was not entirely unexpected that emerging Zika virus could transmit sexually — as it has now done in the first case acquired in the U.S. — but it jolted a public health narrative that was primarily focused on mosquitoes, pregnancy, and birth defects.
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Puerto Rico Bracing for Possible Zika Epidemic
Zika is establishing a foothold in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, which has ongoing transmission of the virus and spread is projected to increase, the CDC reports.