NYT: MPH’s Schaffner puzzled by new C.D.C. Zika guidelines

Posted by vuit_admin on Thursday, January 21, 2016 in News .

Pregnant women who feel sick and have visited countries in which the Zika virus is spreading should see a doctor soon and be tested for infection even though the tests are imperfect, federal health officials said on Tuesday.

“That had me scratching my head,” Dr. William Schaffner,the chairman of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University, said. “Most cases are asymptomatic, and nothing I’ve read says that women need to be symptomatic for the baby to be affected.”