Zika Virus in the news again

[klfrodo]

The Centers for Disease Control announced Monday it was providing $3.9 million in emergency Zika funding to Puerto Rico. saying the number of cases there is doubling every week and could reach into the hundreds of thousands. The money will go to increased laboratory capacity.

 

"We are quite concerned about Puerto Rico, where the virus is spreading throughout the island," Schuchat said. "We think there could be hundreds of thousands of cases of Zika virus in Puerto Rico and perhaps hundreds of affected babies."

 

Source USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/04/11/scarier-than-we-initially-thought-cdc-sounds-warning-zika-virus/82894878/

[diane.in.ny]

I read this also. Very difficult for any woman who is pregnant or thinking about becoming pregnant.

[DisneyCruiseFamily8084]

Has anyone heard of any issues with Grand Cayman or Castaway Cay? We've already booked our cruise for May 8th and just found out my wife is 6 weeks pregnant (yay!). We realize there is a lot of hype around the virus right now but there doesn't seem to be any actual evidence of it spreading like wildfire or being in those regions at all. Trying to exercise an abundance of caution but wanted to see if anyone had been on a cruise in this area recently and what the mosquito population was like. We live in Florida so we're used to mosquitoes as is and wondering if the threat is really any different than at home or if it is actually safer on the ship itself.