The CDC has changed its Zika update format, and we now have Case Counts in the US. Excerpt:
As of February 8, 2017 (5 am EST)
• Zika virus disease and Zika virus congenital infection are nationally notifiable conditions.
• This update from the CDC Arboviral Disease Branch includes provisional data reported to ArboNET for January 1, 2015 – February 8, 2017.
US States
• Locally acquired mosquito-borne cases reported: 220
• Travel-associated cases reported: 4,780
• Laboratory acquired cases reported: 1
• Total: 5,001
•Sexually transmitted: 41
• Guillain-Barré syndrome: 13
US Territories
• Locally acquired cases reported: 36,498
• Travel-associated cases reported: 140
• Total: 36,638*
• Guillain-Barré syndrome: 51
*Sexually transmitted cases are not reported for US territories because with local transmission of Zika virus it is not possible to determine whether infection occurred due to mosquito-borne or sexual transmission.
