Wynwood Florida Co-workers Had Zika Symptoms In Early June

[niman]

Fourteen of the roughly 30 employees who work at the business in Wynwood reported they had typical Zika symptoms such as fever, rash, joint pain or conjunctivitis from early June to mid-July, according to the report.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/pregnant-zika-victim-alerted-officials-to-florida-outbreak-1470821406

 

Edited August 10, 2016 by niman

[niman]

Co-workers who were symptomatic in early or mid-June would have cleared Zika from serum and urine by mid to late-July, the time of sample collections.  Thus, Zika lab confirmation would require IgM testing of serum samples.

Edited August 10, 2016 by niman

[niman]

TOM FRIEDEN: I’ll answer the second of those questions and then ask Dr. Denise Jamieson to answer the first of them.  The details of the investigation again I’ll refer you to Florida.  Our understanding is that they did surveys both at the workplace, as well as in the community.  And for the community -- for the community survey, they identified six asymptomatic people with positive urine PCR, implying infection within the past two weeks.  For the workplace, they identified individuals with both positive PCR and positive IGM.  Some had symptoms and some did not. And so I’ll refer you to the state for those details.  Dr. Jamieson? 

http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2016/t0801-zika-update.html

Edited August 10, 2016 by niman