Awareness of Health, Zika Infection Transmitted by Sex

Zika virus infection transmitted by sex, rather than a mosquito bite, was discovered in Texas, a development sure to complicate plans to contain a global epidemic.
The DallasCounty Health and Human Services Department reported that a patient with the Zika virus was infected after havingsex with someone who had returned from Venezuela, where Zika is circulating. Zika virus is spreading.
Men havingsex after traveling to these areas should consider wearing condoms, although they did not indicate forhow long this would be necessary. Pregnant women should avoid contact with semen from men recently exposed to the virus.

Infection of pregnant women with the Zika virus has been linked to birth defects in their infants. But the infection is not usually life-threatening for others and produces symptoms only in 20 percent of patients.
But sexualtransmission, experts said, adds a new level of difficulty to detecting and preventing Zika outbreaks,which may require not just mosquito control but also safe-sex education.
the prospect of stopping an infection that is usually silent and for which there are no widely available tests; it may be transmissible sexually, yet there may be no sign until a child is born.
Dr. William Schaffner chief of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical School cautioned that sexualtransmission is probably rare compared with the viral spread by mosquitoes, taking place in more than 20 countries and territories in Latin America and the Caribbean.
He also said Mosquito transmission is the highway, whereas sexual transmission is the byway and Sexual transmission cannot account for this sudden and widespread transmission of this virus.
There is a proverb prevention is better than cure. That is why we have to awareness safe having sex and demolish of mosquitoes residence.