New Jersey Zika Cases Increase To Five

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Laboratory-confirmed Zika virus disease cases reported to ArboNET by state or territory — United States, 2015–2016 (as of March 30, 2016)

http://www.cdc.gov/zika/geo/united-states.html

States	Travel-associated cases* No. (%) (N=312)	Locally acquired cases† No. (%) (N=0)
Alabama	2      (1)	0    (0)
Arizona	1      (<1)	0    (0)
Arkansas	1      (<1)	0    (0)
California	17    (6)	0    (0)
Colorado	2      (1)	0    (0)
Connecticut	1      (<1)	0    (0)
Delaware	3      (1)	0    (0)
District of Columbia	3      (1)	0    (0)
Florida	74    (24)	0    (0)
Georgia	9      (3)	0    (0)
Hawaii	5      (2)	0    (0)
Illinois	9      (3)	0    (0)
Indiana	5      (2)	0    (0)
Iowa	4      (1)	0    (0)
Kansas	1      (<1)	0    (0)
Kentucky	3      (1)	0    (0)
Louisiana	2      (1)	0    (0)
Maine	1      (<1)	0    (0)
Maryland	6      (2)	0    (0)
Massachusetts	7      (2)	0    (0)
Michigan	2      (1)	0    (0)
Minnesota	12    (4)	0    (0)
Mississippi	2      (1)	0    (0)
Missouri	1      (<1)	0    (0)
Montana	1      (<1)	0    (0)
Nebraska	2      (1)	0    (0)
Nevada	2      (<1)	0    (0)
New Hampshire	2      (1)	0    (0)
New Jersey	5      (1)	0    (0)

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APRIL 2, 2016, 11:00 PM LAST UPDATED: SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 2016, 11:02 PM

Bergen County woman among 3 more confirmed travel-related Zika cases in N.J.

BY MARY JO LAYTON

STAFF WRITER | 

THE RECORD

 

 

 

State health officials confirmed three more travel-related cases of Zika in New Jersey for a total of five, officials said Saturday.

The three cases, all confirmed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last month, include a Bergen County woman, a Health Department spokeswoman said.

State officials on Friday attended a “Zika Summit” in Atlanta to plan strategies for protecting pregnant women from the mosquito-borne virus, which can cause severe birth defects, including abnormally small heads and brain damage.

Updated maps released last week show that officials now believe New Jersey is within the range of the mosquito species — Aedes aegypti and a “cousin” — that can transmit the virus. A spokeswoman for the Health Department said the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes have been detected “sporadically” in New Jersey, but currently are not established here.

Among the new cases was a Burlington County woman who traveled to Costa Rica and contracted the virus there, a Bergen County woman who traveled to Colombia and returned in early March and an Essex County woman who traveled to the Dominican Republic in mid-February. In all cases, symptoms were resolved, according to the state Department of Health.

In the first case confirmed in February in New Jersey, a Bergen County woman was exposed to the virus there and returned home. The second, also confirmed in February, involved a Hudson County woman who had traveled to Honduras, state officials said.

Federal health officials convened the nationwide conference Friday to press the need to slow the spread of Zika into the United States over the next few months. With Puerto Rico on the front lines of the outbreak, health officials called on Congress to approve funds to prevent its spread on the mainland.

All but six of the 312 cases in the United States have occurred among people who traveled to Zika-affected countries primarily in Latin America, the Caribbean and some Pacific Islands, according to the CDC.

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Edited April 3, 2016 by niman

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Edited April 3, 2016 by niman