On Monday, the state health officials announced that Texas may be probable of local transmission of the Zika Virus. The virus was carried from one person to another and the first state to have been infected was the state of Florida.
A woman from Brownsville, Texas is found with Zika virus
The New York Times reported that the one who was first diagnosed was a woman but she was not pregnant. She lives in Brownsville near the Mexican border in the part of the Gulf Coast. The state officials investigated the case and gathered some of the urine samples of the woman's neighborhood. They also trapped some mosquitoes to test if the virus is present. Everyone is in the move to conduct operations to prevent the spreading of the virus.
Zika virus might not have symptoms
According to Reuters, the government started to spray the area all over the city to lessen the population of the mosquitoes for there are still no available vaccines that could stop the Zika Virus. It will cause mild fever, rash and red eyes but there are no symptoms that came out because studies show that 80 percent of the people that has Zika virus will not experience any symptoms that is why it is hard to know if someone are infected.
The prohibition of travelling near the area was not yet suggested because according to Dr. Frieden the first class was not yet alarming in the public. Florida, the first state that was affected, was in high alert and all the people, not only pregnant women, are not allowed in Wynwood where the first case happened.
Virus might spread to Mexico?
The woman who was first diagnosed in Texas said that she did not go in any place where the virus has been spreading. The bridge over Rio Grande was used by thousands of Mexicans and Americans to cross and the possibility that the virus may spread in Matamoros Mexico is close.
Dr. Frieden said that they are in the move to prevent the spreading of the virus, with the collaboration of the CDC, Mexican health authorities and Mexico. They believe that the mosquito control program ill become stronger.