Gov’t says four Canadians infected with Zika virus after travel

The Zika virus has mothers everywhere concerned about their health, especially the ones with family in South America.

Currently, people in the continental United States can only contract Zika if they travel to an area with a Zika epidemic. “The only thing we can do is fight the mosquito”, she told reporters during a visit to a command center for the Zika crisis.

That’s the reason many pregnant women in the USA are cancelling their trips to those areas, where the CDC is encouraging doctors to monitor a possible link between the Zika virus and the development of unusually small heads and brain damage in infants.

The outbreak began in Brazil a year ago and has now spread to 24 countries in the Americas.

Brazil eradicated the mosquito in the 1950s using chemicals that are now banned, officials said. The concern is that it is spreading so fast across the world that 3 to 4 million people could be infected across the world by next year.

The entomological surveys have revealed that the mosquitoes carrying this disease do not exist in Morocco, the Ministry pointed out in a statement following the recent outbreak of Zika virus infection in Latin America.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases, said the U.S. government is working on two approaches toward a vaccine against Zika.

The WHO said on Sunday the rapid spread of Zika in the Americas was due to a lack of immunity among a population that had not been previously exposed to the virus.

“The symptoms are common symptoms; fever, joint pain, pink-eye and a rash”.

Goldman advises pregnant women to not travel to places like Brazil – where the 2016 Olympics will be held.

For more information about the virus, go to the CDC’s website, or go to the Pennsylvania Department of Health’s website.

At a special meeting Thursday in Geneva, WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan said the virus was becoming much more of a threat.