Zika virus can be transmitted to someone through sex. Zika virus is commonly
spread through infected Aedes Aegyptis and Aedes albopictus mosquito’s species.
The mosquitoes that spread Zika virus bites at day time though it sometimes
bites at night also. According to research findings many areas in the United States
have been reportedly said to have a type of mosquitoes that is capable of
spreading zika virus. Zika virus can also be transmitted through sexual
intercourse to another person from a person who is already infected with
zika virus even when the person has not yet gotten any symptoms of been
infected yet.
Basic prevention guide to stop
the spread of zika virus
The most common way to prevent zika is to prevent mosquito bites.
Always fumigate your environment with EPA-registered insect repellent. It is effective!
Put on long-sleeved shirts and long pants
Make sure you remove stagnant water around your home.
Try to stay in places with air conditioning or windows and door screens.
Implication of Zika Virus on public health.
Effect of zika on pregnancy
Pregnant women infected with zika on or before pregnancy development are likely to get serious birth defect issue called microcephaly which is a symptom of incomplete brain development. According to Center for Disease control (CDC) and Zika healthcare research Doctor has also discovered other health issues in pregnancies and among fetuses and little babies born infected with zika virus before delivering. A serious guide to adhere to if you are a pregnant woman with partners who stays or traveled to a region with risk of zika virus, if you desire to have sex with such a partner do better by using condoms or abstain from sex during your pregnancy period. To be surer not contact zika during sex while you are pregnant, condoms should be used from the beginning of sexual intercourse to end, every time during anal, vaginal and oral sex.
Pregnant women are advice not to travel to places with risk of zika virus. Any pregnant woman wanting to travel to places with the risk of zika should always seek their healthcare provider advice and guidance and they are obliged to strictly follow the instructions to forestall mosquito bites and sexual transmission of Zika virus to them while on their trip.
Travelers infected with zika virus returning from zika risk areas can spread the virus through mosquito bites and sex.
Returning travelers infected with zika may not even feel sick after returning from an area with risk of zika. They should take the following instruction to prevent mosquitoes from biting them for 3 weeks as to prevent mosquitoes from transmitting the virus to other people through biting.
Rudimentary
Virology of Zika Virus(ZIKV)
Zika virus as widely known is a virus that is an enveloped
single-stranded, polarity RNA virus classified into the family of genus
Flavivirus, Flaviviridae. It is also closely related to other arboviruses
family. Zika virus RNA genome is 11kb in size and include an open reading frame
that encodes a polyprotein with 3 structural components like the capsid[C],
Membrane[M], and envelope[E]. And it is grouped into 3 genotypes: East Africa,
West Africa and Asia [2]. The spread of the
ZIKV lineage is linked with consistent NS1 codon usage adaptation in humans [4,
5].
The most common way to prevent zika is to prevent mosquito bites.
Always fumigate your environment with EPA-registered insect repellent. It is effective!
Put on long-sleeved shirts and long pants
Make sure you remove stagnant water around your home.
Try to stay in places with air conditioning or windows and door screens.
Implication of Zika Virus on public health.
As a serious health issues facing humanity the World Health
Organization (WHO) has declared the current Zika virus (ZIKV) epidemic as a
matter of public health concern as it continues to spread out all through North
America, Europe in general, and Africa even as it stands out now it has be
noted as one of the most contagious global disease embattling the human race.
In recent observation it has be noted that the ongoing Zika virus (ZIKV) is a the most
recent arthropod-borne virus emerging with pandemic potential and it is a major emergency for the general
population as people such as pregnant women, blood transfusion recipients, and immunosuppressed patients cases are more
likely to be serious.
Effect of zika on pregnancy
Pregnant women infected with zika on or before pregnancy development are likely to get serious birth defect issue called microcephaly which is a symptom of incomplete brain development. According to Center for Disease control (CDC) and Zika healthcare research Doctor has also discovered other health issues in pregnancies and among fetuses and little babies born infected with zika virus before delivering. A serious guide to adhere to if you are a pregnant woman with partners who stays or traveled to a region with risk of zika virus, if you desire to have sex with such a partner do better by using condoms or abstain from sex during your pregnancy period. To be surer not contact zika during sex while you are pregnant, condoms should be used from the beginning of sexual intercourse to end, every time during anal, vaginal and oral sex.
Pregnant women are advice not to travel to places with risk of zika virus. Any pregnant woman wanting to travel to places with the risk of zika should always seek their healthcare provider advice and guidance and they are obliged to strictly follow the instructions to forestall mosquito bites and sexual transmission of Zika virus to them while on their trip.
Travelers infected with zika virus returning from zika risk areas can spread the virus through mosquito bites and sex.
Returning travelers infected with zika may not even feel sick after returning from an area with risk of zika. They should take the following instruction to prevent mosquitoes from biting them for 3 weeks as to prevent mosquitoes from transmitting the virus to other people through biting.
Finally Zika virus having been notice as a disease with high risk of infecting the
large population of the world has been considered a major health issue that
should be given high attention to curb
and prevent the wide spread of it throughout the global population as been
announced by the World health Organization
(WHO) and the Center for disease
se control (CDC) and they both call for global concern so as to sort ways to
control and most possibly eliminate this wide spreading epidemic invading and
posing threat to the human sound health
and better living standard.
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