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MAHONING COUNTY, Ohio -

Two Mahoning county residents have recently tested positive for the Zika virus.  

The county district board of health was notified of the cases by the Ohio Department of Health.

As with all of the reported Zika cases in the country, the two local cases are associated with travel outside the U.S. The individuals, one from Youngstown and the other from another part of the county, have recently been in countries where the Zika virus is prevalent.

 Health Commissioner Patricia Sweeney says the local cases are not a threat to the public health of people in Mahoning county. Sh e says the species of mosquitoes that carries the Zika virus has not been detected in Ohio. "And if they're not here endemic there's likely not going to be local transmission," said Sweeney.

 The health department is working hard to spread the word about protection from other disease carrying mosquitoes.

"What we want people to do is pay attention to preventing mosquito bites of any type. We know we have the mosquitoes that carries West Nile, and we know we have the mosquitoes that carry encephalitis," Sweeney said.

 Sweeney says in the two local Zika cases, the symptoms have resolved and the individuals are doing fine. 

http://www.wfmj.com/story/32348852/two-valley-residents-test-positive-for-zika-virus

 

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Cincinnati man contracts Zika virus traveling in Caribbean, health officials say

Man in 50s contracted Zika traveling in Caribbean

UPDATED 10:54 PM EDT Jul 01, 2016
 
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BE SMART AND BE PROTECTED. MOSQUITOES. WE FEEL THAT BECAUSE OF THE WEEKEND THAT INDIVIDUALS MUST BE REMINDED TO COVER THEIR BODIES, YOUR LEGS. WE KNEW THIS DAY WOULD COME WHEN WE WOULD MAKE THE ANNOUNCEMENT CINCINNATI HAS EXPERIENCED ITS FIRST CASE OF THE ZIKA VIRUS. OF ZIKA CAN HIT CLOSE TO HOME. >> SHE GOT BITTEN. I WAS VERY WHEN I WAS PREGNANT WITH HER. AFTER SHE WAS BORN I STILL AM WORRIED ABOUT IT BUT NOT AS MUCH AS WAS WHEN I WAS PREGNANT. ANCHOR: KELLY HUDSON IS THE MOTHER OF TWO GIRLS. UNKNOWN IS SCARY. >> THE POTENTIAL DANGER IF YOU ARE EXPOSED TO MOSQUITO CARRYING A VIRUS, WHAT IS THE RISK FOR IS CARRYING? >> TO ANSWER H QUESTION, ONE ZIKA BECOME SICK. ANY SYMPTOMS AT ALL. MOST PEOPLE FULLY RECOVER. WITHIN THE NEXT WEEK THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT WILL BEGIN PUTTING OUT SKIED ATTRACTS AROUND THE CITY.

CINCINNATI —A case of the Zika virus has been reported in Cincinnati, health commissioner Dr. O'dell Owens announced in a news conference Friday.

Officials said the victim, a man in his 50s, apparently contracted the virus while traveling in the Caribbean. Health officials said the virus was transmitted through a mosquito bite, and the man has since fully recovered.

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It's the first reported case of the virus in Cincinnati.

Owens said as outdoor activities are likely to ramp up this holiday weekend, it’s a good time to encourage Cincinnatians to keep their guard up.

“We knew this day would come when, unfortunately, we would make the announcement that Cincinnati has experienced its first case of the Zika virus,” he said.

There have now been 21 reported cases of the virus in the state of Ohio, five of which were reported within the past week. Owens said 80 percent of the individuals who contract the virus do not experience the symptoms.

“Symptoms tend to be a fever, a rash, some joint pain and sometimes a red eye,” Owens said. “His blood was sent to the CDC, where he was diagnosed as having the Zika virus.”
The Zika virus is spreading rapidly through Latin America. Zika is suspected of causing a devastating birth defect -- babies born with abnormally small heads -- and pregnant Americans are urged to avoid travel to affected areas.

Zika virus is primarily transmitted through a mosquito bite. There is no indication that it can spread from person to person through casual contact.

When symptoms occur, officials said they are often mild, lasting from several days to a week, and include fever, rash, joint and muscle pain, conjunctivitis (red eyes) and headache. Severe disease requiring hospitalization is uncommon. 

http://www.wlwt.com/news/first-case-of-zika-virus-reported-in-cincinnati-health-officials-say/40317418

 

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2 Mahoning women test positive for Zika

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Published: Fri, July 1, 2016 @ 12:01 a.m.

By PETER H. MILLIKEN

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AUSTINTOWN

The Mahoning County District Board of Health has reported the first cases of county residents testing positive for the Zika virus.

One is a 26-year-old Youngstown woman who traveled to Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory where mosquitoes are known to transmit Zika.

The other is a 52-year-old woman residing elsewhere in the county who traveled to St. Lucia, which is a Caribbean island.

Neither Patricia Sweeney, county health commissioner, nor Melanie Amato, Ohio Department of Health public information officer, specifically identified the community of residence of the 52-year-old.

Still, officials sought to tamp down any fear about Thursday’s revelation.

“These local cases are not a threat to the public health of residents in Mahoning County,” Sweeney said.

Neither Mahoning County case has been hospitalized and neither is under quarantine, Amato said.

The two residents found to have Zika were tested after they showed Zika symptoms, Amato said.

Twenty-one Ohio residents have tested positive for Zika; 20 of them traveled to the tropics.

The remaining case was transmitted in Ohio from a man to his wife after the man had traveled to the tropics, Amato said.

No residents of Trumbull and Columbiana counties have tested positive for Zika, Amato said.

There have been 822 travel-associated Zika cases in the United States, Sweeney said.

No known Zika cases have been acquired from mosquitoes within the 50 states, she added.

Zika is spread primarily by the bite of the infected mosquito, Aedes aegypti, and not person to person, Sweeney said.

That mosquito is found mainly in the tropics and Southern U.S., she added.

To transmit Zika from one person to another, a mosquito would have to bite the source person while that person is symptomatic, live long enough to incubate the virus and bite someone else, Amato said.

That mosquito is very rare in Ohio, with ODH having trapped only a few of them, none recently, Amato said.

Eighty percent of Zika-infected people have no symptoms, Sweeney said.

Symptoms, which begin two to seven days after someone is bitten by an infected mosquito, are fever, rash, red eyes, joint and muscle pain and headache.

Symptoms are generally mild and usually last no longer then a week, with hospitalization being uncommon, Sweeney said.

Zika is associated with birth defects, such as babies being born with small heads, and with Guillain-Barre syndrome, which attacks the immune system and can cause paralysis.

“Residents who travel to countries where the Zika virus is prevalent should follow travel precautions and prevent mosquito bites,” Sweeney said.

“We recommend that, after travelers return to Ohio, they wear an EPA-approved insect repellent for three weeks” after visiting the tropics and refrain from unprotected sex, Amato said.

Noting that mosquitoes can locally spread the West Nile virus and La Crosse encephalitis, Sweeney advised everyone to have intact door and window screens and wear insect repellent.

Amato advised wearing long sleeves and long pants and avoiding being outdoors at dawn and dusk, when mosquitoes are most active.

“Clear all standing water,” Amato advised, referring to accumulations in scrap tires, toys and empty flower pots after it rains.

Drain birdbaths frequently, she urged.

- See more at: http://www.vindy.com/news/2016/jul/01/2-mahoning-women-test-positive-zika/#sthash.OdrxiLKF.dpuf

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