niman Posted May 21, 2016 Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 SEATTLE -- Two pregnant Washington state women have tested positive for the Zika virus, state health officials revealed on Friday.The women will now join a new registry set up by the Centers for Disease Control to track pregnant women infected by the mosquito borne virus.http://komonews.com/news/local/two-pregnant-washington-women-test-positive-for-zika-virus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niman Posted May 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2016 Two pregnant Washington women test positive for Zika virusBY MATT MARKOVICH FRIDAY, MAY 20TH 2016 KOMO SEATTLE -- Two pregnant Washington state women have tested positive for the Zika virus, state health officials revealed on Friday.The women will now join a new registry set up by the Centers for Disease Control to track pregnant women infected by the mosquito borne virus.Doctors at a press conference at Harborview Medical Center said they were not sure how the virus might affect the women's pregnancies. The virus has been linked to birth defects such as microcephaly.Senator Patty Murray brokered a $1.1 billion funding bill for Zika research and expanded testing that passed the Senate on Thursday."I will tell you as a mother and an grandmother, I know one of the scariest questions an expecting parent can ask is, is my baby ok," said Murray.But Murray and House democrats are upset by a House republican bill that would cut the amount requested by two-thirds and move funds earmarked to combat Ebola to fund Zika research."We can't be borrowing money from other critical resources and that's what's happening right now," said Representative Susan Del Bene, a Democrat who represents Washington's 1st district. "We've got to make that fight."Money in the Senate proposal could go to fund in-state testing for Zika at the state's public health lab in Shoreline."So think about your loved one who's worried about a pregnancy, whether the baby has been affected and they have to wait three weeks for that answer," said Dr. Scott Lindquist, Washington's State Epidemiologist. "That is unacceptable" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEATTLE -- Two pregnant Washington state women have tested positive for the Zika virus, state health officials revealed on Friday.The women will now join a new registry set up by the Centers for Disease Control to track pregnant women infected by the mosquito borne virus.Doctors at a press conference at Harborview Medical Center said they were not sure how the virus might affect the women's pregnancies. The virus has been linked to birth defects such as microcephaly.Senator Patty Murray brokered a $1.1 billion funding bill for Zika research and expanded testing that passed the Senate on Thursday."I will tell you as a mother and an grandmother, I know one of the scariest questions an expecting parent can ask is, is my baby ok," said Murray.But Murray and House democrats are upset by a House republican bill that would cut the amount requested by two-thirds and move funds earmarked to combat Ebola to fund Zika research."We can't be borrowing money from other critical resources and that's what's happening right now," said Representative Susan Del Bene, a Democrat who represents Washington's 1st district. "We've got to make that fight."Money in the Senate proposal could go to fund in-state testing for Zika at the state's public health lab in Shoreline."So think about your loved one who's worried about a pregnancy, whether the baby has been affected and they have to wait three weeks for that answer," said Dr. Scott Lindquist, Washington's State Epidemiologist. "That is unacceptable"
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niman Posted May 22, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2016 State: 2 pregnant women in Wash. test positive for Zika The CDC has detected 279 pregnant women in the US infected with Zika, some in Washington.KTVB 3:26 PM. MDT May 21, 20161661CONNECT TWEET LINKEDIN GOOGLE+ PINTERESTState health officials on Friday said two pregnant women in Washington state have tested positive for the Zika virus.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 women's pregnancies, and that they were monitoring the women."Currently in Washington, we have tested 350 travelers who have had a concern or exposure to Zika," said Dr. Scott Lindquist, State Communicable Disease Epidemiologist . "Two of those women entered into our pregnancy registry.""(The CDC) has created a pregnancy registry. Essentially, if you are pregnant and you either have confirmation of the virus or what's called the equivocal results where we can't rule it out, they want to follow those pregnancies through their term and also following the outcome. So we're talking about two people who meet those criteria.""We know that they have Zika, or the antibodies test is positive for it, but we don't know what the outcome of the pregnancy is going to be yet."Including the two pregnant women, Washington state now has four cases of the Zika virus, which has the potential to cause birth defects.Meanwhile, Senator Patty Murray visited with doctors and health officials in Seattle Friday. She talked about her $1.1 billion emergency funding plan to prepare for the Zika fight as mosquito season gets underway.The CDC put out new numbers Friday related to the Zika virus: 279 pregnant women in the U.S. are infected with the Zika virus, 122 of those are in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. So far, fewer than a dozen pregnant women with Zika have had a problem, such as a miscarriage, or evidence that the fetus has a birth defect. FollowUW Medicine @UWMedicineLIVE on #Periscope: #ZikaVirus funding press conference @ Harborview Medical Center https://www.periscope.tv/w/ag3z-jcyNTMzMDB8MWVhSmJ3QkRlWlZ4WFNaoWr5mCcOPvLbWyEqygfguMAwyJhO3wzDs5rUZlaQ …1:48 PM - 20 May 2016UW Medicine @UWMedicine#ZikaVirus funding press conference @ Harborview Medical Center — Seattle, WA, United Statesperiscope.tv 77 Retweets 1010 likes Reported Zika Virus Cases in the United States | HealthGrovehttp://www.ktvb.com/news/health/uw-medicine-2-pregnant-women-in-wash-test-positive-for-zika/208425611 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1661CONNECT TWEET LINKEDIN GOOGLE+ PINTERESTState health officials on Friday said two pregnant women in Washington state have tested positive for the Zika virus.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 women's pregnancies, and that they were monitoring the women."Currently in Washington, we have tested 350 travelers who have had a concern or exposure to Zika," said Dr. Scott Lindquist, State Communicable Disease Epidemiologist . "Two of those women entered into our pregnancy registry.""(The CDC) has created a pregnancy registry. Essentially, if you are pregnant and you either have confirmation of the virus or what's called the equivocal results where we can't rule it out, they want to follow those pregnancies through their term and also following the outcome. So we're talking about two people who meet those criteria.""We know that they have Zika, or the antibodies test is positive for it, but we don't know what the outcome of the pregnancy is going to be yet."Including the two pregnant women, Washington state now has four cases of the Zika virus, which has the potential to cause birth defects.Meanwhile, Senator Patty Murray visited with doctors and health officials in Seattle Friday. She talked about her $1.1 billion emergency funding plan to prepare for the Zika fight as mosquito season gets underway.The CDC put out new numbers Friday related to the Zika virus: 279 pregnant women in the U.S. are infected with the Zika virus, 122 of those are in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico. So far, fewer than a dozen pregnant women with Zika have had a problem, such as a miscarriage, or evidence that the fetus has a birth defect. FollowUW Medicine @UWMedicineLIVE on #Periscope: #ZikaVirus funding press conference @ Harborview Medical Center https://www.periscope.tv/w/ag3z-jcyNTMzMDB8MWVhSmJ3QkRlWlZ4WFNaoWr5mCcOPvLbWyEqygfguMAwyJhO3wzDs5rUZlaQ …1:48 PM - 20 May 2016UW Medicine @UWMedicine#ZikaVirus funding press conference @ Harborview Medical Center — Seattle, WA, United Statesperiscope.tv 77 Retweets 1010 likes Reported Zika Virus Cases in the United States | HealthGrovehttp://www.ktvb.com/news/health/uw-medicine-2-pregnant-women-in-wash-test-positive-for-zika/208425611
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