{"id":8850,"date":"2018-04-20T10:58:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T13:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/?p=8850"},"modified":"2018-04-20T14:35:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T17:35:27","slug":"do-i-still-need-to-worry-about-zika","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/do-i-still-need-to-worry-about-zika\/","title":{"rendered":"Do I Still Need to Worry About Zika?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">20 April, 2018<\/p>\n<div class=\"author scale-12 padded margin-24-tb clearfix\">\n<div class=\"author-text\" data-tracking-zone=\"author\">\n<p><a class=\"bold author-name\" href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/author\/alexandra-sifferlin\/\">ALEXANDRA SIFFERLIN<\/a>\u00a0\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5241521\/zika-virus-pregnancy\/?xid=tcoshare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Time.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"timestamp published-date padding-12-left\">April 17, 2018<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\" class=\"article content body clearfix\" data-tracking-zone=\"body\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Warmer weather signals the onset of vacations, destination weddings and\u2014unfortunately\u2014mosquitoes. Since the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5119151\/zika-birth-defects-cdc\/\">Zika virus<\/a>\u00a0emerged three years ago in the Americas, cases have declined, but many people wonder if they still need to consider the mosquito-borne disease when making travel plans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5241521\/zika-virus-pregnancy\/?xid=tcoshare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8851\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Screen-Shot-2018-04-20-at-10.22.18-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a>\u201cThe bottom line is yes,\u201d says Dr. Paul Mead, a medical officer in the CDC\u2019s division of vector-borne diseases: Americans do still need to take precautions to protect against Zika.<\/p>\n<p>But new research suggests some good news: that the window of sexual transmission for Zika may be shorter than previously thought. <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5241521\/zika-virus-pregnancy\/?xid=tcoshare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">See full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related articles published in HCSM:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/zika-and-aedes-aegypti-new-and-old-challenges\/\">Zika and Aedes aegypti: new and old challenges<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; The current issue of HCSM (vol.24 no.4 Oct.\/Dec. 2017) features a debate about the zika epidemic, which came to the fore when the disease raised a series of concerns related to birth defects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/zika-and-the-international-relations-perspective\/\">Zika in the International Relations perspective<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; According to Jo\u00e3o Nunes, the discipline of International Relations can contribute to the study of Zika by enabling a more detailed\u00a0exploration of inequalities at the global level.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/human-sciences-against-zika\/\">Human sciences against zika<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Researchers of the international consortium ZIKAlliance gathered at Fiocruz to discuss the social aspects of the disease, such as the effects of campaigns and sexual rights.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry clearfix\">\n<div class=\"post-meta clearfix\">\n<p class=\"meta-info\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry clearfix\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article published in Time.com suggests that the window of sexual transmission for Zika may be shorter than previously thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[598,899],"class_list":["post-8850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-more-news","tag-zika","tag-zika-alliance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8859,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8850\/revisions\/8859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}