Zika Virus Sufferers Concentrated In New York, Florida

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Zika Virus Sufferers Concentrated In New York, Florida

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According to the CDC there were 1,133 confirmed Zika cases between the start of 2015 and early this month. Almost 40% of those cases were reported in Florida and New York.

The breakout:

US States

  • Locally acquired mosquito-borne cases reported: 0

  • Travel-associated cases reported: 1,132

  • Laboratory acquired cases reported:  1

  • Total: 1,133

    • Sexually transmitted: 14

    • Guillain-Barré syndrome: 5

The CDC also reports

  • No local mosquito-borne Zika virus disease cases have been reported in US states, but lab tests have confirmed Zika virus in travelers returning to the United States. These travelers have gotten the virus from mosquito bites and some non-travelers got Zika through sex with a traveler.

  • With the recent outbreaks, the number of Zika cases among travelers visiting or returning to the United States will likely increase.

  • These imported cases could result in local spread of the virus in some areas of the United States.

As of July 6, Florida had 206 cases, which was 18% of the national total. New York had 285 which was 25%. The only other states with notable percentages of the whole were 69 in California which is 6% of the total, and Texas at 53, or 4%.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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