LAKELAND – Pregnant women involved in regards to the Zika virus can now get free Zika risk assessment and trying out at any of five clinics in Polk County operated with the aid of the Florida department of health. The virus, which can be unfold by mosquito or sexually, customarily factors mild or no symptoms but has been linked to fetal demise and severe start defects, including a circumstance of abnormally small heads, microcephaly, and eye defects, hearing loss and increase considerations. The free possibility assessments and tests for pregnant women can be provided Mondays via Thursdays throughout general medical institution hours, noted Nicole Riley, public assistance officer for the county fitness department. youngsters stroll-ins will be accepted, it's superior to call for an appointment on the scheduling middle, 863-284-3075 ext. 5, Riley observed. in the neighborhood, the assessments and exams can be found at the following websites: Auburndale, 1805 Hobbs highway. Bartow distinctiveness Care medical institution, 1255 Brice Blvd. Haines city clinic, 1700 Baker Ave. E.
Lake Wales sanatorium, 835 W. vital Ave. Lakeland hospital, 3241 Lakeland Hills Blvd. If a possibility assessment shows feasible exposure to the virus, blood and/or urine samples could be accrued and despatched to a lab for trying out, in accordance with a news liberate from the Florida department of health. Getting the results may additionally take one to two weeks. In January, the state started monitoring pregnant women who demonstrate facts of Zika. fitness officers do not unencumber advice about which county the women reside in; although, statewide 57 pregnant women have been or at the moment are being monitored.
Polk County has recorded 13 cas es of trip-related Zika infection, after the grownup or a sexual companion traveled to South america, Latin the us, the Caribbean or in different places the place the virus has been active. up to now, there have been no non-go back and forth-related situations in Polk. A web of local and state officials and groups, including Polk County Mosquito manage and personal health care providers, are carrying on with to computer screen for indications the virus is emerging here.
Statewide, 21 cases of locally got virus had been recorded, all in Southeast Florida (Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm seashore counties). Florida department of fitness officers proceed to examine and display screen a 1-square-mile area in Miami-Dade, the Wynwood district north of downtown, which, they say, is the best enviornment in the state of at present lively transmission. The virus will also be transmitted with the aid of a typical yard and condo mosquito, Aedes aegypti, if it bites an contaminated adult then bites other individuals. The virus also can be transmitted sexually through an infected grownup.
The country wide centers for ailment manage and Prevention's thoughts for combating mosquito bites encompass: put on lengthy-sleeved shirts and pants. stay in areas with air-conditioning and with window screens and door monitors to maintain mosquitoes out. Use EPA-registered insect repellent (even though pregnant or breastfeeding). eliminate or continually empty containers of standing water in lawns. The CDC says many unknowns continue to be about pregnancy and the Zika virus, including even if s*x*al transmission of the virus poses diverse chance of beginning defects than a mosquito-borne transmission, how doubtless it is that the virus will circulate to a fetus, no matter if the fetus will develop beginning defects and when right through pregnancy the virus is without doubt to trigger harm. neither is it clear how low the virus remains lively in semen or within the blood.
Pregnant ladies should still now not go back and forth to any area the place the Zika virus is spreading, including the Wynwood nearby in Miami, the CDC says. people that must commute to areas with Zika exercise may still take precautions to prevent mosquito bites and will chorus from intercourse or use condoms accurately each time until after the delivery of the baby. Marilyn Meyer can be reached at marilyn.meyer@theledger.com or 863-802-7558. comply with her on Twitter @marilyn_ledger.
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