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Zika virus: country specific risk
Zika virus in Florida, United States
Active Zika virus transmission is taking place within a one-square mile area in Miami-Dade County, up to date details can be seen on the Florida Health website. Pregnant women are advised to postpone non-essential travel to this affected area within Miami-Dade until after pregnancy.
The risk in the rest of Florida is considered moderate based on their demonstrated ability to implement effective mosquito control measures. Pregnant women should consider postponing non-essential travel to the rest of Florida until after the pregnancy.
Prevention
http://travelhealthpro.org.uk/locati...s/#Other_risks
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ABOUT US
TravelHealthPro is the website comprising the travel health resources of the National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC).
What we do
NaTHNaC was set up by the Department of Health in 2002 with the broad aim of Protecting the Health of British Travellers. We seek to improve the quality of travel health advice given by GP practices, travel clinics, pharmacies and other healthcare providers, and provide up-to-date and reliable information for the traveller, travel industry and national government.
We are commissioned by Public Health England and hosted by University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH); we also work in partnership with our other network founders Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases (HTD). The network partners and Department of Health provide strategic guidance to NaTHNaC through representation on a Technical Advisory Group which meets quarterly.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/zika-vir...-specific-risk
- 5 August 2016
- Detailed guide
Zika virus in Florida, United States
Active Zika virus transmission is taking place within a one-square mile area in Miami-Dade County, up to date details can be seen on the Florida Health website. Pregnant women are advised to postpone non-essential travel to this affected area within Miami-Dade until after pregnancy.
The risk in the rest of Florida is considered moderate based on their demonstrated ability to implement effective mosquito control measures. Pregnant women should consider postponing non-essential travel to the rest of Florida until after the pregnancy.
Prevention
- All travellers should avoid mosquito bites particularly between dawn and dusk.
- There is no vaccination or medication to prevent ZIKV infection.
- It is recommended that pregnant women planning to travel to areas with active ZIKV transmission should postpone non-essential travel until after pregnancy.
- Women should avoid becoming pregnant while travelling in, and for 8 weeks after leaving an area with active ZIKV transmission.
- If a woman develops symptoms compatible with ZIKV infection, it is recommended she avoids becoming pregnant for a further 8 weeks following recovery.
- Pregnant women who visited an area where there is active Zika virus transmission while pregnant, or who become pregnant within 8 weeks of leaving the affected area, should contact their GP, obstetrician or midwife for further advice, even if they have not been unwell. Further information about when to perform fetal ultrasound scanning, and, if necessary, referral to the local fetal medicine service is available.
- Almost all cases of ZIKV are acquired via mosquito bites. A small number of cases of sexual transmission of ZIKV have been reported, although reports are increasing, the risk of sexual transmission of ZIKV is thought to be low.
- See further information for women who are pregnant, at risk of getting pregnant, or planning pregnancy, and their male partners.
http://travelhealthpro.org.uk/locati...s/#Other_risks
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ABOUT US
TravelHealthPro is the website comprising the travel health resources of the National Travel Health Network and Centre (NaTHNaC).
What we do
NaTHNaC was set up by the Department of Health in 2002 with the broad aim of Protecting the Health of British Travellers. We seek to improve the quality of travel health advice given by GP practices, travel clinics, pharmacies and other healthcare providers, and provide up-to-date and reliable information for the traveller, travel industry and national government.
We are commissioned by Public Health England and hosted by University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH); we also work in partnership with our other network founders Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) and the Hospital for Tropical Diseases (HTD). The network partners and Department of Health provide strategic guidance to NaTHNaC through representation on a Technical Advisory Group which meets quarterly.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/zika-vir...-specific-risk