{"id":448387,"date":"2016-02-05T05:01:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T11:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=448387"},"modified":"2016-02-06T04:19:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T10:19:22","slug":"east-texas-heath-officials-address-zika-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=448387","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Heath Officials Address Zika Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/02\/UTHNE.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-448388\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/02\/UTHNE-150x150.png\" alt=\"UTHNE\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-448388\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; UT Health Northeast held a news conference to address the concerns of the mosquito borne Zika Virus in East Texas. &#8220;We first were alerted to a documented case in Harris County about the middle part of January so this is all a new occurrences&#8221; George Roberts, Chief Executive Officer of Northeast Public Health District of Tyler, said. According to KETK, this week CDC confirmed the first sexually transmitted case of Zika, from a patient who sex with someone who returned from Venezula.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One would suspect that it&#8217;s probably through semen and a mucosal membrane there can be blood spread or tears that sort of thing,&#8221; Jeffrey Levin, MD at UT Health Northeast, said. Zika has been linked to birth defects in pregnant women who travel to countries where the virus is ongoing.  &#8220;We just know that there&#8217;s been the cause and effect between the Zika Virus and and pregnant women&#8230;.babies being born with smaller head in Brazil. We are not really sure cause that, we just know the cause and effect,&#8221; Roberts, said. <\/p>\n<p>Symptoms of Zika include fever, rash, and joint pain, there are no vaccines for the virus. Tips for protecting yourself include wearing long sleeves, and mosquito repellent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; UT Health Northeast held a news conference to address the concerns of the mosquito borne Zika Virus in East Texas. &#8220;We first were alerted to a documented case in Harris County about the middle part of January so this is all a new occurrences&#8221; George Roberts, Chief Executive Officer of Northeast Public Health &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=448387\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas Heath Officials Address Zika Virus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":448388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 07:17:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448389,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448387\/revisions\/448389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/448388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}