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CDC is working with other public health officials to monitor for ongoing spread of Zika virus?. Today, CDC posted a Zika virus travel notice for St. Kitts and Nevis.
Original title: “CDC adds St. Kitts and Nevis to interim travel guidance related to Zika virus - Media Statement”
CDC hosted a telebriefing on Zika
Original title: “Transcript for CDC Telebriefing: Zika Telebriefing Update - Transcript”
Florida health officials' response this summer to the first identified cases of local transmission and the first identified outbreak of Zika virus infection in the continental United States, including aggressive mosquito control efforts, helped to interrupt local transmission and reduce the effect on the community, including pregnant women.
Original title: “Florida health officials report on response to Zika in Wynwood; evidence shows aerial spraying likely helped interrupt local transmission - Media Statement”
Florida health officials' response this summer to the first identified cases of local transmission and the first identified outbreak of Zika virus infection in the continental United States, including aggressive mosquito control efforts, helped to stop local transmission and reduce the effect on the community, including pregnant women.
Original title: “CDC Telebriefing: Zika Virus Update - 09-23-2016 - Media Advisory”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has purchased approximately $2.5 million in laboratory supplies and equipment in August to enhance U.S. laboratory (lab) capacity to test for Zika virus.
Original title: “CDC continues to build US laboratory capacity to rapidly detect Zika virus infection - Press Release”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated guidance for people who travel to or live in the approximately 1-square-mile area in Wynwood, Florida, just north of downtown Miami.
Original title: “CDC updates guidance for Wynwood (FL) neighborhood with active Zika transmission - Press Release”
The Florida Department of Health (DOH) has confirmed through its ongoing investigation that there is active mosquito-borne spread of Zika virus in a larger section of Miami Beach.
Original title: “CDC works with Florida as Miami Beach active Zika transmission area expands”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has awarded $2.4 million to Chicago, Houston, New York City, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles County to establish, enhance, and maintain information-gathering systems to rapidly detect microcephaly-a serious birth defect of the brain-and other adverse outcomes linked to Zika virus infection.
Original title: “CDC awards $2.4 million to five jurisdictions to fight Zika - Press Release”
CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, and Martha Lucía Ospina Martínez, MD, MPH, MBA, Director General of Colombia's Instituto Nacional de Salud (INS), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate on Zika virus response activities in Colombia, particularly the effect of Zika virus during pregnancy.
Original title: “CDC and the Instituto Nacional de Salud of Colombia collaborate to understand long-term effects of Zika virus infection during pregnancy - Press Release”
CDC is working with other public health officials to monitor for ongoing Zika virus transmission. Today, CDC posted a Zika virus travel notice for Singapore. CDC has issued travel notices (level 2, "practice enhanced precautions") for people traveling to destinations with Zika. For a full list of affected countries/regions, visit http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/zika-travel-information.
Original title: “CDC adds Singapore to interim travel guidance related to Zika virus - Media Statement”
CDC is working with other public health officials to monitor for ongoing Zika virus? transmission. Today, CDC posted a Zika virus travel notice for The British Virgin Islands. Local transmission of Zika has been reported on the island of Tortola, which includes Cane Garden Bay and Havers.
Original title: “CDC adds The British Virgin Islands to interim travel guidance related to Zika virus - Media Statement”
CDC is working with other public health officials to monitor for ongoing Zika virus? transmission. Today, CDC posted a Zika virus travel notice for The Bahamas. Local transmission of Zika has been reported on the island of New Providence, which includes the capital city of Nassau.
Original title: “CDC adds The Bahamas to interim travel guidance related to Zika virus - Media Statement”
CDC hosted a telebriefing to provide an update on the Zika virus
Original title: “CDC Telebriefing: Zika Virus Update - August 19 - Transcript”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been working with Florida health officials on investigating cases of locally transmitted Zika virus. The most recent information suggests that there may be a new active Zika transmission in South Florida.
Original title: “CDC Telebriefing: Zika Virus Update - 8-19-2016 - Media Advisory”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been working with Florida health officials on investigating cases of locally transmitted Zika virus. An additional area of active Zika transmission has been identified in a section of Miami Beach, in addition to the area of active Zika transmission near Wynwood.
Original title: “Additional area of active Zika transmission identified in Miami Beach - Press Release”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today issued updated interim clinical guidance for health care providers caring for infants born to mothers with possible Zika virus infection during pregnancy.
Original title: “CDC Updates Guidance for Care of Infants Born to Mothers with Possible Zika Virus Infection During Pregnancy - Media Statement”
CDC is working with other public health officials to monitor for ongoing Zika virus? transmission. Today, CDC posted a Zika virus travel notice for Cayman Islands. CDC has issued travel notices (level 2, "practice enhanced precautions") for people traveling to destinations with Zika. For a full list of affected countries/regions, visit http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/page/zika-travel-information.
Original title: “CDC adds Cayman Islands to interim travel guidance related to Zika virus - Media Statement”
CDC is working with other public health officials to monitor for ongoing Zika virus transmission. Today, CDC posted a Zika virus travel notice for Antigua and Barbuda as well as Turks and Caicos Islands (U.K.).
Original title: “CDC adds Antigua and Barbuda and Turks and Caicos Islands (U.K.) to interim travel guidance related to Zika virus - Media Statement”
Funding provided for states and territories to respond to the emerging threat, quickly identify cases of microcephaly and other adverse birth outcomes linked to Zika, ...
Original title: “CDC awards $16 million to states and territories to fight Zika - Press Release”
New assessments of mosquito populations and test results this past weekend by Florida public health officials, as part of a community survey in the Miami neighborhood where several Zika infections were recently confirmed, have found persistent mosquito populations and additional Zika infections in the same area.
Original title: “CDC issues travel guidance related to Miami neighborhood with active Zika spread - Press Release”