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May 30, 2024 · Recommendations to prevent Zika virus infections in travelers and people living abroad are listed by a location's Zika geographic risk classification. First determine the risk category for your location and then review the specific recommendations for that risk category.
- About Zika
Zika virus typically occurs in tropical and subtropical...
- Zika Travel Information
1 These countries have a potential risk of Zika, but we do...
- Prevention & Transmission
You can prevent Zika virus disease (Zika) by protecting...
- About Zika
May 31, 2024 · Zika virus typically occurs in tropical and subtropical areas of Africa, the Americas, Southern Asia, and Western Pacific. There is currently no vaccine to prevent or medicine to treat Zika. Travelers can protect themselves by preventing mosquito bites.
Jun 11, 2024 · With the aim of informing public health authorities and EU/EEA citizens of the risk related to Zika virus disease, ECDC has produced the maps and table below displaying the places where travel-associated cases reported to ECDC were likely to have been infected.
6 days ago · WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the third session of the ad hoc Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG-3) of the Science-Policy Panel on chemicals, waste and prevention of pollution – 17 June 2024.
May 31, 2024 · You can prevent Zika virus disease (Zika) by protecting yourself from mosquito bites and using condoms or not having sex. The timeframes that biological males and females can pass Zika virus through sex are different because the virus can stay in semen longer than in other body fluids.
1 day ago · Zika. Between EW 1 and EW 52 of 2022, a total of 40,528 of Zika have been reported in the Region of the Americas in 15 out of 52 countries and territories. Of all reported cases, 3,547 were lab-confirmed (8.8%). The 40,528 represents a cumulative incidence 4.24 cases per 100,000 population.
May 25, 2024 · Zika virus, infectious agent of the genus Flavivirus in the family Flaviviridae. Zika virus was first isolated in 1947 from a rhesus monkey that had been caged in the canopy of the Zika Forest in Uganda. The virus subsequently was found to cause a febrile illness in humans, known as Zika fever.
