As winter finally yields its grip and warmer weather sneaks in, more people are getting outdoors. They are gardening, hiking, going to parks, rivers, streams, ponds, lakes and traveling across the country and they will be facing an increased risk of getting some pretty awful diseases, some which were rare in the US until more
For the past couple of years, we’ve heard a great deal about the Zika virus. It’s a virus that is spread by mosquitos of the genus Aedes. These are the same type of mosquitos that also spread dengue fever and chikungunya. Once bitten by an infected mosquito, the virus can travel through a person’s bloodstream
THURSDAY, June 1, 2017 (HealthDay News) — The Zika virus will strike the continental United States again this summer, and looming federal budget cuts will make it hard for local officials to curb its spread, public health experts said Wednesday. The experts believe it’s a foregone conclusion that more local Zika outbreaks will occur on
