On February 1, 2016, The World Health Organization announced
the Zika virus outbreak as a global
health emergency. From its rapid
spread across large parts of South America, to its suspected links to birth
defects, there are many reasons people fear the danger of the Zika virus.
FiOS1 News recently spoke with K.C.
Rondello, Ph.D., Academic
Director of the Department of Emergency Management, to discuss the dangers of a
Zika outbreak after the first reported U.S. case of the disease was reported in
Texas.
“It basically
means that any country could have concerns for transmission of Zika,” says Dr.
Rondello about the discovery that the disease could be transmitted sexually.” There
is a concern that this is going to exponentially increase, in terms of number
of cases and potentially severity of cases.”
