{"id":2901,"date":"2016-02-29T11:51:50","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T16:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.travelnursesource.com\/notes\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2018-04-20T10:23:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T14:23:36","slug":"what-nurses-need-to-know-about-the-zika-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelnursesource.com\/notes\/what-nurses-need-to-know-about-the-zika-virus","title":{"rendered":"What Nurses Need to Know About the Zika Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Zika virus\u00a0poses a serious threat to expecting mothers, so it’s more crucial\u00a0than ever that nurses know how to prevent, detect, and treat this disease. As of now, there is no cure for the disease,\u00a0and contracting the Zika virus\u00a0could possibly\u00a0lead to severe birth defects such as\u00a0microcephaly. This rare birth defect is becoming more common with rising counts of the Zika virus, so it is our job as travel nurses\u00a0to ease the minds of worried mothers and take all necessary prevention methods.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention released a report that at least nine women in the United States have been infected with the virus, all of which have traveled outside of the U.S. during the past nine months. Out of these nine women, five had miscarriages or abortions. In one of the abortion cases, a woman made the choice to terminate the pregnancy after an ultrasound revealed several absent brain regions in the fetus.<\/p>\n

“We did not expect to see these brain abnormalities in this small case series of U.S. pregnant travelers,” said Dr. Denise Jamieson, a medical officer at the U.S. Public Health Service said during a report on Friday.<\/p>\n

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