2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
Puerto Rico officially ended the Zika virus epidemic that has been hitting the island since 2016, after the presence of the virus has dropped below the technical minimum.
The island's health department announced in a statement that Zika transmission had been reduced below epidemiological levels, with 10 cases of the virus reported every four weeks since April 2017. A dramatic decrease compared to the most of 8,000 that were given every four weeks in August 2016, during the height of the epidemic.
Despite the announcement, the United States Center for Disease Control (CDC) will maintain the travel alert for pregnant women, who are still advised not to travel to the island.
"We are pleased that the peak of the Zika virus outbreak in Puerto Rico has come to an end, however, we cannot let our guard down," CDC Acting Director Anne Schuchat said in a statement. "[The] CDC will continue its focus on the protection of pregnant women and will work closely with the Puerto Rico Department of Health to support comprehensive Zika surveillance and prevention efforts on the island."
The CDC's decision has caused alarm among representatives of the local tourism industry, which has been affected by the CDC's travel alert. "This information must be communicated to the rest of the world … it is important [that] it appears in the United States and international media," exclaimed president of the local chapter of the Association of Travel Agents of the United States, Daphne Barbeito, to the local station WKAQ in statements collected by the Primera Hora newspaper.
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