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I Got Zika While Traveling – Here’s What No One Told Me
27.07.2023 - 18:38 / smartertravel.com
From the moment I decided to embark on a three-month journey around the Caribbean and Central America, I knew Zika was a possibility. It was impossible not to ignore the headlines. Caused by a bite from the Aedes mosquito, Zika is affecting dozens of countries and territories in Asia, Africa, and the Americas, including every single one I planned to visit. Over 400 cases have been diagnosed in the U.S. among travelers who had returned from the tropics. To top it off, there’s still no effective vaccine, so I couldn’t protect myself that way.
“Hope you’re packing lots of DEET,” my friend told me in a grim farewell text.
My mother works for the State Health Department and told me repeatedly that there was no possible way I wouldn’t make it back Zika-free. “Just please don’t get pregnant,” she begged.
I understood her concern: Zika has been linked to microcephaly, a serious brain disorder in babies, with 5,000 suspected cases in Brazil alone. And as of May, cases among pregnant women returning to the continental U.S. have tripled.
But frankly, none of it scared me much. Of course, I hate getting sick while traveling—who doesn’t? I wouldn’t be near my doctor, I’d be staying in strange lodgings with no one to care for me, and the local drugstores would only be selling unfamiliar medications in foreign languages. But I also knew that even if I did get it, chances were good I wouldn’t show symptoms—80 percent of affected people don’t. Besides, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) isn’t recommending people cancel their trips —except for pregnant women. For this reason, many hotels, cruise lines, tour companies, and all three major U.S. airlines are allowing people to postpone or cancel their trips free of charge, and some travelers—particularly babymooners—have taken them up on the offer. One travel agent told “The New York Times” in January that he’d seen over 50 cancellations already.
Still, I brushed all of this off. I wasn’t pregnant and had no intention of becoming pregnant, so I figured I’d be just fine taking CDC-recommended precautions. I’d wear long sleeves and pants, avoid mosquito infested areas, spray bug dope everywhere, and stay inside at dawn and dusk—the time of day when mosquitoes like to party. But my first invitation to drink Panty Rippers in a tiki bar located smack in the middle of a mangrove swamp proved that this was easier said than done.
Tropical mosquitoes are smaller and stealthier than their North American counterparts—instead of buzzing and swarming around me, leaving me reaching for the Off!, they bit me on the sly, lulling me into security until I woke up the next morning with a ring of bites around my ankles. Okay, this was going to be harder than I thought.
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