| establishing a timeline to discontinue routine testing of asymptomatic pregnant women for zika virus infection - american samoa, 2016-2017. | the first patients with laboratory-confirmed cases of zika virus disease in american samoa had symptom onset in january 2016 (1). in response, the american samoa department of health (asdoh) implemented mosquito control measures (1), strategies to protect pregnant women (1), syndromic surveillance based on electronic health record (ehr) reports (1), zika virus testing of persons with one or more signs or symptoms of zika virus disease (fever, rash, arthralgia, or conjunctivitis) (1-3), and routi ... | 2017 | 28333910 |
| notes from the field: outbreak of zika virus disease - american samoa, 2016. | during december 2015-january 2016, the american samoa department of health (asdoh) detected through surveillance an increase in the number of cases of acute febrile rash illness. concurrently, a case of laboratory-confirmed zika virus infection, a mosquito-borne flavivirus infection documented to cause microcephaly and other severe brain defects in some infants born to women infected during pregnancy (1,2) was reported in a traveler returning to new zealand from american samoa. in the absence of ... | 2016 | 27764076 |