PREGNANCY ASSOCIATED SARS-COV-2 AND ZIKA INFECTIOUS CONDITIONS – RECENT DATA AND OUTCOMES

ABSTRACT

Since the Zika virus outbreak in the United States, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) concluded that among people with confirmed or possible Zika virus infection during pregnancy, Zika-associated birth defects occured in 5% of babies [4]. According to cohorts from Colombia, Puerto Rico, and French Guiana, the cumulative risk of ZIKV infection for pregnant women living in epidemic areas ranged from 21 to 44 percent [5]. Blood donors who were asymptomatic and Zika virus RNA positive were found in Florida and Texas in 2017 [7]. [...]Zika virus sexual transmission is possbile from both asymptomatic and symptomatic infections through genital, oral and anal intercourse [7]. According to these data, pregnant women in the US are more likely than non-pregnant women of reproductive age to get SARS-CoV-2 infection and accompanying symptoms [12].