Zika Virus pandemic information
-The most common symptoms of Zika are fever, rash, joint pain, or conjunctivitis (red eyes). Other common symptoms include muscle pain and headache. The incubation period (the time from exposure to symptoms) for Zika virus disease is not known, but is likely to be a few days to a week.
-The illness is usually mild with symptoms lasting for several days to a week.
-Zika virus usually remains in the blood of an infected person for a few days but it can be found longer in some people.
-When pregnant women are infected, the virus may be transmitted via the placenta to the fetus and cause microcephaly, a condition where a baby is born with an abnormally small head and incomplete brain development.
-Severe disease requiring hospitalization is uncommon.
-Deaths are rare.
- No vaccine or medications are available to prevent or treat Zika infections.
-To prevent Zika, health officials recommend avoiding mosquito bites by using nets and repellents for the skin. Mosquitoes that spread Zika virus bite mostly during the daytime. Typically, they live both indoors and outdoors nearest people and they lay their eggs in or near standing water contained in buckets, bowls, animal dishes, flower pots, and vases.
