it's prevention because of this incredible illness that can where the unborn fetus. peace, certainly looking from our perspective we , have to educate our providers to get the word out and talk to their patients and work on the local communities but we've got to educate the patient's best what the risk really is and try to address some of these cultural and various misperceptions about contraception and the dangers. we've got another battle to fight as well. >> it also comes home that notion of institutional racism in our society. when we talk about building trust people who are in the , community, whether they are an institution providing health care or are a community resource, this is a place where people go to trust. it's not going to be earned in a crisis. there is concern in puerto rico that they are being experimented on for prevention. if we are not honest about that -- if you not honest about that, if you don't go into that conversation saying we recognize there has to be a reckoning then there is no way we can engage patients appropriately to make the decis

>> we know zika can be transmitted into the unborn fetus if the baby gets it in the second trimesterlead to main near long cal deficits. it can affect the brains, the limbs, and we have seen cases of that. so now there is some anecdotal reports that even babies that do not have any deficiencies in the head or limbs can also have seizure disorders in the neonatal period. this is a virus that the unborn child gets it could be problematic. so the protocol keeps changing. we are telling pregnant women don't go to placessa is found to be endemic. we are telling them not to go to the caribbean. and if they go to those places, we have protocols and ultrasound and testing blood samples to see if they have any exposure. kennedy: does it leave your body? can yo you infect a woman six months to a year later? >> not a year. but we started with self week of that you were not supposed to have intercourse, now we are up to almost sick months. we have seen d to almost six months. there are transmissions through sk --through semen. kennedy: dr. manny alvarez thank you for being here. i'm terribly fri

from a mother to her unborn fetus. it can be transmitted sexually. lot of people say, you know, zika, isn't it only a problem for pregnant women? no, it's not just a problem for them. it's the biggest problem for them. many can transmit it to their female partners. that's why the cdc has a lot of guidelines on their website about if you're a man or a woman, and a partner who's pregnant, when you should be using barrier contraception. cdc.gov has all of that data. it's important, and pay close attention is really what i want people to know. >> a lot of people don't know. not everyone knows about zika. you hear these warnings, am i picturing people going down to florida wearing long sleeved shirts and hats? >> yeah. >> it sounds like it's going to be difficult to do. is there anything else? >> yes. >> you mentioned long sleeves and hats. long sleeves, long pants will prevent or help protect against mosquito bites. we want to make sure we're using an fda approve ed approved mosq repellant. one of the biggest things, and the florida department of health

it's prevention because of this incredible illness that can where the unborn fetus. peace, certainly looking from our perspective we , have to educate our providers to get the word out and talk to their patients and work on the local communities but we've got to educate the patient's best what the risk really is and try to address some of these cultural and various misperceptions about contraception and the dangers. we've got another battle to fight as well. >> it also comes home that notion of institutional racism in our society. when we talk about building trust people who are in the , community, whether they are an institution providing health care or are a community resource, this is a place where people go to trust. it's not going to be earned in a crisis. there is concern in puerto rico that they are being experimented on for prevention. if we are not honest about that -- if you not honest about that, if you don't go into that conversation saying we recognize there has to be a reckoning then there is no way we can engage patients appropriately to make the decis

patients are scared if they get zika, because it can cause such devastating birth defects for an unborn fetus moms are staying calm. most of the ladies have essentially barricaded themselves at home. they don't trust wearing long sleeves or mosquito repel lapts. they want to stay sure. they say a few group of patients have decided actually to move away and live somewhere else. now, miami beach is, of course, a huge tourist destination. so women here recently, now want to start a family, luckily, they tell me zika is flushed out of the system completely. they wait about a month. they can get a statement. poppy. >> elizabeth, thank you very much. we spoke to the head of the cdc about this travel guidance. take a listen. >> they are recommending pregnant women not travel to particular american cities. is the cdc saying pregnant women should not travel to all of miami-dade county now? >> we are saying very specifically, there are two one-mile areas in miami-dade county where there is confirmed spread of zika. yes. pregnant women should not travel to those two areas. we are also providing addition

zika virus has the unique ability to infect pregnant women and cross the placenta and damage the unborn fetusto cause a terrible congenital microcephaly, what we're calling fetal brain disruption sequence because it's blocking the development of the fetal brain. it's every parent's first nightmare. the overwhelming emphasis has to be on protecting pregnant women or women who think they might be pregnant from becoming infected. >> when we think about what's being done to combat the spread of this or get the control of this, the cdc is saying it's been harder than they thought to wipe out the zika carrying mosquitos. why is that? >> i'm not surprised. if you look back at the history, we've never embarked on a serious effort to control this type of mosquito in the southern united states. this aedes aegypti mosquito is found in many parts of south florida, as well as the gulf coast, including houston where we are and new orleans. it's a mosquito very difficult, it's specifically adapted to live in human habitats. it lives inside homes, outside of homes, especially in areas where there's discarded

it's prevention because of this incredible illness that can where the unborn fetus. peace, certainly looking from our perspective we , have to educate our providers to get the word out and talk to their patients and work on the local communities but we've got to educate the patient's best what the risk really is and try to address some of these cultural and various misperceptions about contraception and the dangers. we've got another battle to fight as well. >> it also comes home that notion of institutional racism in our society. when we talk about building trust people who are in the , community, whether they are an institution providing health care or are a community resource, this is a place where people go to trust. it's not going to be earned in a crisis. there is concern in puerto rico that they are being experimented on for prevention. if we are not honest about that -- if you not honest about that, if you don't go into that conversation saying we recognize there has to be a reckoning then there is no way we can engage patients appropriately to make the decis

it's prevention because of this incredible illness that can where the unborn fetus.eace, certainly looking from our perspective we , have to educate our providers to get the word out and talk to their patients and work on the local communities but we've got to educate the patient's best what the risk really is and try to address some of these cultural and various misperceptions about contraception and the dangers.

her fetus from her unborn child, was also dead. she was survived by a seven-year-old son. i took his picture and try to talk with him. he could not smile. he was very traumatized. you will see this over and over in aleppo. the doctors are overwhelmed by the number of casualties and victims. they cannot do enough surgeries to save everyone. themselves are targeted. one of the doctors told me he was working for 72 hours and that he does not mind working for a long time, but the worst hehtmare that he figures if goes home and discovers his wife and children are also killed were the target of barrel bombing. amy: what about the children? you have said that you cat food and grass? ini mean, that has happened syria under siege. according to the united nation, there are 800,000 -- 850,000 people under siege by their own .overnment in many areas aleppo now, which became under a siege, you have 300,000 peoeopl, among them 85,000 children. they are under siege. i visited an orphanage that is also underground for protection. the children over there had to wait for the doctors coming

its privacy prevention because of this and credible illness that can affect the unborn or the fetus, so i think the education pieces not-- certainly from our perspective we have to educate our providers to get the word out and talk to their patients and work in a local communities, but it we also have achieved patients as to what their risk really is and to try to address some of these cultural and various in some cases unfortunately this and work misperceptions about contraception, so we have another battle to fight as well. >> it also comes home that notion about institutional racism in our society and so when we talk about building trust i think what latanya and ann marie had talked about whether people are in the community provide healthcare or they are community resource this is a place for people go to trust and it's not going to be earned in the crisis and there's lots of concern in puerto rico that they are being exterminated on when it comes to zika prevention and i think if we aren't honest about that and there are lots of good reasons, so if you're not honest about that an

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