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I just got back from the Texas Disease in Nature conference yesterday where we discussed Zika for a few hours.
As it stands there have been approximately 550 give or take Zika positive patients in the US. All have been aquired by travel to endemic areas, except for 8 sexual transmissions. There has been no known vector borne transmission.
As far as the National Guard goes, what is proposed that we do? It's vector borne, not contagious, except rarely sexually and only via Male to female or male to male. Only 10-20% of infected people are symptomatic. The type of mosquito that vectors the disease is Aedes aegypi and A. albapictus which do not respond well to our pesticide/fogging efforts. I used to be in our state's HRF and Cerf-P and I just don't know what we'd do for this situation, other than put on the appearance that we're trying something. As far as I know this disease is best fought with patient education on vector control and personal protection measures and posiibly vaccine devolpment.
As it stands there have been approximately 550 give or take Zika positive patients in the US. All have been aquired by travel to endemic areas, except for 8 sexual transmissions. There has been no known vector borne transmission.
As far as the National Guard goes, what is proposed that we do? It's vector borne, not contagious, except rarely sexually and only via Male to female or male to male. Only 10-20% of infected people are symptomatic. The type of mosquito that vectors the disease is Aedes aegypi and A. albapictus which do not respond well to our pesticide/fogging efforts. I used to be in our state's HRF and Cerf-P and I just don't know what we'd do for this situation, other than put on the appearance that we're trying something. As far as I know this disease is best fought with patient education on vector control and personal protection measures and posiibly vaccine devolpment.
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