The WHO has just released new recommendations to curtail non-vector, sexually transmitted Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in returned travelers. http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/204421/1/WHO_ZIKV_MOC_16.1_eng.pdf?ua=1 In areas where the virus is not spreading locally, the WHO now recommends that both women and men who are returning from Zika-affected areas abstain or practice safe sex for 6 months, even if they are not trying to conceive and regardless of whether or not they have ZIKV symptoms. Please build these recommendations into your pre-travel advice and traveler information notices. Please be alert to sexually transmitted ZIKV cases and other non-mosquito borne possibilities including via saliva, urine, tears, transfusion etc and remember to use the code 846 for “non-vector transmitted Zika”.
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The WHO has just released new recommendations to curtail non-vector, sexually transmitted Zika virus (ZIKV) infection in returned travelers. http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/204421/1/WHO_ZIKV_MOC_16.1_eng.pdf?ua=1 In areas where the virus is not spreading locally, the WHO now recommends that both women and men who are returning from Zika-affected areas abstain or practice safe sex for 6 months, even if they are not trying to conceive and regardless of whether or not they have ZIKV symptoms. Please build these recommendations into your pre-travel advice and traveler information notices. Please be alert to sexually transmitted ZIKV cases and other non-mosquito borne possibilities including via saliva, urine, tears, transfusion etc and remember to use the code 846 for “non-vector transmitted Zika”.