freedomdwarf1
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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux The Aderes (?) mosquito that spreads zika does not exist in significant numbers in the us. Usual mosquito control should be fine here. I think the CDC might not agree with your premise - From Huff'n'poo: Thirty-one people in the U.S. have so far been diagnosed with Zika and a microcephalic baby was born in Hawaii, but none of the cases were contracted on U.S. soil. Each involved a person who traveled to a Zika-affected country, where they acquired the virus via local transmission -- when a mosquito picks up the virus from an infected person and transmits it to someone else through a bite. This same scenario is "likely" to happen in the U.S., according to Dr. Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the federal Centers of Disease Control and Prevention. In a press conference Thursday, she cited recent outbreaks in the U.S. of dengue fever and chikungunya, two other mosquito-borne diseases active in American thanks to the same host that's currently spreading Zika: the Aedes aegypti mosquito. "These types of mosquitoes are common in parts of the United States, particularly southern states," said Schuchat. "So it’s possible, even likely, that we will see limited Zika outbreaks in the United States. "We do expect that we are at risk for local transmission, and I think we’re not going to be surprised to report that,” she added. Schuchat’s predictions align with the World Health Organization’s recent warning that Zika will spread across the Americas, with the exceptions of Canada and Chile, where Aedes aegypti isn't found.
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