{"id":3495,"date":"2016-07-11T08:29:59","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T12:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3495"},"modified":"2016-07-11T08:29:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T12:29:59","slug":"zika-traveling-tips-some-issues-to-consider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=3495","title":{"rendered":"Zika Traveling Tips: Some Issues To Consider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Carmen Heredia Rodriguez for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>In a span of 13 months, a relatively unknown virus morphed into a global health emergency thanks to a pest less than four millimeters wide.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/ais.paho.org\/phip\/viz\/ed_zika_cases.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Pan American Health Organization<\/a> reports more than 50,000 people in the Western Hemisphere are infected with the Zika virus. The primary mode of transmission is by mosquitoes \u2014\u00a0the <em>Aedes aegypti<\/em>, to be precise \u2014\u00a0and its relative the <em>Aedes albopictus<\/em>. But the virus can also be transmitted sexually. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/zika-traveling-tips-some-issues-to-consider\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=31487829&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz--6duBMrDwP_jcCh1r_URBkliFdMyc-cGVENfGK13Kj4T3uNiWFDVD_43fOzQnIAAGj5uQRaASywZYbGTe1__1BCSYdLw&amp;_hsmi=31487829\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: 15px\/1.6 'Open Sans', serif; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; widows: 1; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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