As temperatures rise and travelers prepare for summer vacations, experts warn that taking the proper precautions to protect against Zika is still of the utmost importance.
Although the virus's predicted impact has yet to be determined fully this year, the truth is, when it comes to mosquito-borne illnesses, forecasting the damage a certain disease is going to cause often presents epidemiologists with a formidable challenge.
“We thought that a couple years ago, Chikungunya, [another type of mosquito-borne illness], was going to make a large inroad into the United States, but it never really amounted to a whole lot of anything," said Joseph Conlon, a retired, 20-year Navy epidemiologist who now serves as a technical advisor to the American Mosquito Control Agency. "So, we don’t really know what’s going to happen with the Zika virus, but to be prudent, we need to be ready for it to make another onslaught.”
So whether traveling in the United States or abroad, precautions are recommended due to the uncertainty.
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