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Cases of pregnant USA women with Zika triple under new counting
Aedes aegypti mosquito file
President Barack Obama has urged the Congress to pass the Zika funding bill after reports revealed that 279 pregnant women in the United States have been infected by the virus.
"I think it's a combination of both - both increasing numbers of pregnant women with a Zika infection, and also a recent change in how we're reporting out the numbers on a weekly basis", Honein said. The number of infected pregnant women in the U.S. began rising dramatically in February, probably reflecting the spread of the Zika virus from Brazil to more countries visited by Americans.
In the USA, 157 pregnant women have tested positive for the disease and 122 have tested positive in U.S. territories. As of now, there are still more unknown risks of contracting the virus.
"We've got to get moving", Mr Obama told reporters after meeting top health officials in the Oval Office on Friday.
Children born with microcephaly generally have brains that did not develop properly in-utero as well as abnormally small heads. "It needs to get me a bill that has the sufficient funds to get me a job", Obama said, adding that Zika " is not something where we can build a wall to prevent-mosquitoes don't go through customs". "So a high proportion of people who are bitten by infected mosquitos caught the disease". But he said all those cases are travel-related, meaning the individuals were either infected while outside the US or contracted it from someone who traveled.
During a joint news conference with Senator Patty Murray at Harborview Medical Center, doctors say they don't know how the virus will affect the Washington women's pregnancies, and that they were monitoring the women.
A mosquito-borne virus is prompting worldwide concern because of an alarming connection to a neurological birth disorder and its rapid spread across the globe.
At present, Zika virus infections are present in 50 American states, up from 48 last week.
The CDC told reporters on a conference call that, so far, fewer than a dozen of the infected pregnant women it has tracked in the US and Puerto Rico have had miscarriages or babies born with birth defects. But in the past year, infections in pregnant women have been strongly linked to fetal deaths and to potentially devastating birth defects, mostly in Brazil.
Obama expressed frustration that Congress has been slow to act on his request for funding to prepare for the virus.
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