Argentine - First case of Zika virus transmitted sexually

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Life | Fri Feb 26, 2016 10:09am EST Related: HEALTH

Argentine woman contracts Zika without leaving the country

BUENOS AIRES

A health official in the Argentine province of Cordoba reported on Friday that a woman had contracted the Zika virus without having left the country, bringing to nine the total number of cases reported nationwide.

A major outbreak of the virus began in Brazil last year and has spread to many countries in the Americas.

"We are thinking that the virus could have been transmitted sexually," Cordoba health chief Francisco Fortuna told Radio Continental, adding that the patient had contact with a man who recently traveled to Colombia.
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febr 26, 2016

Cordoba's first case of local transmission of zika

C?rdoba health authorities reported the first case of local transmission zika in the country for possible sexual transmission, affecting a woman who maintains a relationship with a man from Colombia.


The zika is transmitted by the same vector of dengue and chikungunya, the mosquito Aedes aegypti, and the World Health Organization (WHO) declared on 1 February "global health emergency" by the virus.

Zika health emergency was declared by the international body after notice a "strongly suspect" relationship between the disease and the increase in cases of microcephaly in children, and detecting possible infection through sex.

Health Minister of Cordoba, Francisco Fortuna, said that this is an adult woman, a resident of the provincial capital, which "has no history of travel and have had contact with a man who traveled to Colombia".

"It was confirmed by the central laboratory of the province zika infection," the official said in a statement to Continental radio.

Fortuna warned that "this is the first indigenous case in the country of probable sexual transmission. It is a new disease that is studying".

In this regard, the official said that "this is a woman who acquired the disease without having to travel outside the province of Cordoba and linked to a man who does have a history of having been in Colombia days ago."

The man "when it came to the country and the province made contact with this woman, so you think about the possibility of infection zika through sexual transmission."

"The central laboratory of our province was diagnosed in women, were taken of course all care about what it means blocking and disease control, not being likely contacts, which means the focus control," the official.

Health Minister Cordova said the two patients have "good progress" and said that "man was also taken blood samples and taken to the laboratory."

 

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The first case of indigenous zika was in C?rdoba

1:30 - The infection occurred through sexual transmission and was confirmed by Health Minister Francisco Fortuna. It was detected in a woman from the capital.

Health Minister of Cordoba, Francisco Fortuna, yesterday confirmed the first case of indigenous zika detected in the country.

The case is a woman and was transmitted sexually and not by direct mosquito bite.

In addition, the official said that the samples analyzed in the Maiztegui Institute of Pergamino, "confirmed the diagnosis" preliminary transmission of the virus through sex.

Fortuna recalled that the affected is a woman who had sex with her partner, a man who spent a month in Colombia and in the last two days before his return to Argentina introduced rash and fever.

"Man, before returning to Colombia, consultation in a health center in the country with a fever, diagnosed zika and carrying the virus enters C?rdoba", had explained the minister.

After arriving to Argentina, "almost immediately has sex with your partner and from there, a few days later, the woman has symptoms and is confirmed in the main laboratory of the province the presence of the disease" he told then.

The infected woman and her partner were in good health after overcoming the epidemic period.
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