Brazil and University of Texas Reach Deal on Zika Vaccine

But according to goalie Hope Solo, there’s another factor that will determine whether she’ll be heading to Rio this summer: Zika. Zika virus disease has historically occurred in Africa, Southeast Asia and islands in the Pacific Ocean.

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However, Zika has been linked to a rapid rise in the number of children born with microcephaly – abnormally small heads and brains – to mothers infected during pregnancy. “I don’t know when that day will come for (husband) Jerramy (Stevens) and me, but I personally reserve my right to have a healthy baby”. US Olympic bosses, have advised athletes and staff, to consider not travelling to Rio if they feel in danger of becoming infected.

The latest case “was communicated to the World Health Organization [WHO] and we are studying it in more depth because we have just received the information”, Health Minister Marcelo Castro said during a news conference.

“If someone gets a nasty gastro infection, vomiting and diarrhea, it’s not ideal for competing in an Olympic environment”, Hughes said.

“Our priority is to protect the health of the athletes, ‘ Budgett said on Thursday”. New figures from Brazil’s Health Ministry show that the Zika virus outbreak has not caused as many confirmed cases of a rare brain defect as first feared.

Officials said Marylanders and other travelers to area returning from regions with ongoing Zika transmission, such as the Caribbean and Central and South America, may have been exposed to the virus. But because of its possible link to birth defects, experts believe it is a great danger to pregnant women. The connection has yet to be scientifically proven, but the CDC has pointed to strong evidence of a link between the two and called on pregnant women to avoid travel to 26 countries and territories in the Americas with active outbreaks.

None of the cases were contracted in the state, and none involve pregnant women.

California public health department officials on Wednesday said there have been six Zika cases reported in the state since 2013, but the Yolo County case was the first this year. None of the individuals who traveled to the country are pregnant. “People need to keep in mind that we don’t have a lot of other viruses that are spread by mosquitos in the USA”, he says.

The Zika virus has arrived in Yolo County, diagnosed in a resident who recently returned from a country where the mosquito-borne virus is widespread.

The White House’s $1.8 billion funding request followed a WHO emergency declaration last week that the Zika virus is now a global health threat, based on the suspicion that the virus may be to blame for the thousands of birth defects in Brazil in the past year. “If it was my sister or my wife, I would not be anxious for them in a future pregnancy”.