The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Americans sound the alert. They announced that they were investigating 14 suspected cases of transmission of Zika virus sexually in the United States. This examination was caused by the confirmation, through a laboratory test, of a Zika virus infection by a person who had not traveled to a risk area but who had sex with a person carrying the virus. .
Probable transmission from man to woman
The 14 suspected cases under analysis concern women, some of whom are pregnant. For two of them, the only probable source of contamination is the sexual route, following unprotected sex with an infected man. The United States is awaiting the final results of laboratory blood tests which will confirm or deny the presence of the virus and at the same time to validate or not the sexual route as a mode of transmission of the virus. At the moment, the sexual contamination seems to come about only one way: “As with previous reported cases of sexual transmission, these cases involve possible transmission of the virus from men to their sexual partners. At present, there is no evidence that women can transmit Zika virus to their sexual partners.“Explain the CDC in a press release. These centers nevertheless recall that the majority of contamination is due to mosquitoes, and that the best way not to catch the Zika virus is therefore to protect yourself from the bites of these insects.
Marisol Touraine recommends the use of condoms
Pregnant women should be especially vigilant, as the zika virus could be associated with cases of microcephaly (abnormally small skull) of the fetus. On February 22, 2016, the Minister of Health Marisol Touraine called “pregnant women to be very attentive“, in the program Le Grand Jury on RTL / Le Figaro / LCI.”Their partner should not have unprotected sex, I recommend the use of a condom “she added.
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