dr. manny is here. tell you what precautions you should take whether you are in new york, i worked years to get my medicare don't know where i'd be without it so when i heard about con-artists committing medicare fraud... it made me so mad i wanted to give them the old one-two one, never give your medicare number to get a free offer or gift two, always check your medicare statements for errors these crooks think we're clueless, they don't have a clue it's your medicare, protect it see more ways to fight fraud at medicare.gov/fraud kennedy: this is not great news. nearly 500 new yorkers have tested positive for the zika virus. including 49 pregnant women. most of those cases contracted the virus while traveling outside the united states. but native outbreaks happened in florida and they are expected to spread elsewhere. here to brief us is dr. manny alvarez. welcome, how you doing, dr. manny. as a parent, how freaked out should i be about zika in the place that i live? >> i hate to use the word "freak ou

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kerry: joining us is dr. manny alvarez. manny, even though they're telling us don't be alarmed, parents will be. >> this happens all the time. as of late, you see the outbreaks, sometimes 20, 30, 100 people in different parts of doesn't last forever. a lot of people don't get the full dose of the vaccine. they may get one shot, not the second. so kids in their 20s always need a booster. when i sent my kid to college, i give him a booster shot of the vaccine. the socialization in schools, in their 20s, you use cups and you give drinks to each other and all of that. that promotes more passing of so this is what the health officials are saying. if you think you get it, if you have the mumps, stay at home. because there's no cure in reality. you take liquids, something -- you get a low grade temperature. you can take things like that to monitor the temperature but stay home and let the incubation period disappear because the symptoms stay around 14, 16 days, sometimes you can get it 25 days out of exposure. but don't contaminate

alison: dr. manny breaks it all down. >> not going to have that. steve: fair enough. nick, let's talk about the weather and the heat and humidity. we're at the point in the pattern where people can't remember if today was day after the other. compared to yesterday, today was more uncomfortable. yesterday a bit of a break. today very humid again. and up in the high 80s to the lower 90s across the area. now we're waiting for thunderstorms. they're still marching across eastern pennsylvania. the first band. there's another band further to the west with the cold front itself in western new york state and western pennsylvania and ohio. i'll show you on the radar in a minute. these are the ghighs for the da. middle 90s philly to washington, d.c. here's a line of showers and storms on fox 5 sky guardian. the lower part of this is not as developed as it was about 35, 45 minutes ago, but marching eastward. this is under a severe thunderstorm watch until 11:00 tonight. as we put this in motion, it's still there but not as solid of a line. but showers and storms are moving in fr

with zika-related disease, our own dr. mannyas some insight everyone should hear. >> if you get bitten by a zika-infected mosquito and you're pregnant, it is not 100% that the baby is going to get congenital anomaly's i i felt worried this morning. i did the blood test for the zika virus. >> candace campbell didn't know she was a month pregnant when she was vacationing. when travelers returning from infected regions, testing will become much more common in the u.s. >> we recognize it. you know? first, is a thorough ultrasound and recommend it to get the blood testing done. >> as obstetrician and gynecologist dr. manny alvarez specializes in high risk pregnancies. pregnant women and women planning to be pregnant should be tested and male partners. the results can be reassuring. or devastating. microencephaly is a rare neurological condition affecting babies, genetics and certain types of infections cause it but this is the first time it is linked to a mosquito borne virus. >> micro is small. cephaly is head. it's where the brain

steve: joining us is dr. manny alvarez. why wouldn't you get a vaccine to prevent cancer? >> we've talked about this. hpv, human papillomavirus, a virus you get through sexual transmission, linked to cervical cancer, linked to many other diseases of the cervix, warts and infertility and things like and still 40 percent or so of kids have been vaccinated. you have 60 percent. this is a reminder once again as to school begins that you should talk to your pediatrician, consider the hpv vaccine. it's 100 percent effective against the hpv virus 16, 18, those viruses linked to the diseases and you want to take note of it. it is quite effective. it has no side effects. people, when the vaccine came ou saying, well, this may induce promiscuity among teenagers and things like that. that hasn't been the fact. from that social aspect, i don't think you have to worry. have a conversation with your pediatrician. this is for teens and pre-teens, things like that. you should consider getting the hpv vaccine. it does help. steve: you have to get it before you get hpv. >> that's the thing.

. >> joining us is dr. manny alvarez. i guess the big question is i did. >> with all this vegan and healthy and gluten-free. >> in the '90s, women weighed 152 pounds. now 169. men went to 196. that's 15 pounds weight gain in a 20-year span. a couple of reasons. people are getting to live longer. you have older metabolism in the two, inflammation, which is the theme of the health segment today. a lot of the foods that people have been eating in the last 20 years is causing a lot of inflammation because there are a lot of chemicals that we didn't have a long, long time ago. the third factor is poverty. the world is poorer. middle class is gone. so you have now people working two jobs, not enough time to exercise, and, of course, you have to stretch that dolla they're not going to be picking foods when you have two jobs and take care of the kids, that it's very healthy. when you combine the poverty, the elimination of the middle class, all of those things, in conjunction with inflammation because of the chemicals we see in o

. >> as you saw, dr. manny alvarez treated the mother of that baby. the baby is well.rk. you saw from the picture it was clear she had severe birth defects. fair so stay this little girl has a rough road ahead of her? >> oh, absolutely. this is a life-long problem. you have a malformation of the brain where you have now severe, severe neurological deficits for life. this child will need intensive care, monitoring and it is going to an incredible challenging life. there is so much fear about zika and precious little information. how much do we know about the virus itself, but, two, this correlation verse causation of birth deeffects? well, every day we begin to find out new things about the virus. i can tell you that the correlation between getting exposed, being pregnant, getting bitten in the first and second trimester of pregnancy has a very strong link of developing neurologic neurologic neurological conditions like microcephaly. kids are born in south and central america where this is now a problem. we are also finding out that there is indirect evidence that in ul