1940s, is linked to serious birth defects. Dr. Jon lapook has the latest. The zika virus. Reporter today the World Health Organization sounded an alarm about the zika outbreak. Director margaret chan. Questions abound. We need to get some answers quickly. Reporter the organization will convene an emergency meeting monday to plan its response. The zika virus, which is linked to children being born with small heads, poses several challenges. Right now diagnostic tests arent perfect. Theres in treatment, and theres in vaccine. Dr. Anthony fauci, head of the Infectious Diseases branch of the nih, says the outbreak is a pandemic. You have multiple down fris in south america and the caribbean, so by anybodys definition, that would be considered a pandemic. Reporter theres concern the virus will eventually be found in mosquitoes in the u. S. If you have this much zika in caribbean, sooner or later were going to see a local transmission. Reporter fauci says controlling mosquitoes that could ca
Abroad, but that is likely to change. The virus, first discovered in the zika forest in uganda in the 1940s, is linked to serious birth defects. Dr. Jon lapook has the latest. The zika virus. Reporter today the World Health Organization sounded an alarm about the zika outbreak. Director margaret chan. Questions abound. We need to get some answers quickly. Reporter the organization will convene an emergency meeting monday to plan its response. The zika virus, which is linked to children being born with small heads, poses several challenges. Right now diagnostic tests arent perfect. Theres in treatment, and theres in vaccine. Dr. Anthony fauci, head of the Infectious Diseases branch of pandemic. You have multiple down fris in south america and the definition, that would be considered a pandemic. The virus will eventually be found in mosquitoes in the u. S. If you have this much zika in south america and in the caribbean, sooner or later were going to see a local transmission. Reporter fa
Alarm about the zika outbreak. Director margaret chan. Questions abound. We need to get some answers quickly. Reporter the organization will convene an emergency meeting monday to plan its response. The zika virus, which is linked to children being born with small heads, poses several challenges. Right now diagnostic tests arent perfect. Theres in treatment, and theres in vaccine. Dr. Anthony fauci, head of the Infectious Diseases branch of pandemic. You have multiple down fris in south america and the caribbean, so by anybodys definition, that would be considered a pandemic. Reporter theres concern the virus will eventually be found in mosquitoes in the u. S. If you have this much zika in south america and in the caribbean, sooner or later were going to see a local transmission. Reporter fauci says controlling mosquitoes that United States has one big advantage most of the United States goes through a real winter, and thats very, very important in containing mosquitoesborne viruses. R
That a u. S. Judge has accepted a plea agreement with Lumber Liquidators. Right now we dont know exactly what the plea was or what the plea was for in terms of what charges they address. Still, the headline was moving the stock, the stock up about 9. 5 , right around just 10 54 a. M. , halted for volatility, reopened just now about a minute ago, now up by 6. 5 on heavier than average volumes, so we will bring you more. Right now, trading volatility around Lumber Liquidators on a bloomberg headline with a u. S. Judge. Back over to you guys. Thanks,dom. Keep us posted on that. Meanwhile, the rest of the markets giving up some of their gains, lower off the lows for the day. Twitter shares up sharply. A new report from the information out this morning says Mark Andreason and silver lake considering some sort of deal for the social network. Twitter shares as i mentioned, up this morning. They were up about 9 in premarket trading. But here with they are story is jessica lessen, cnbc contribu
Health organization warned that the zika virus is spreading explosively. By the end of the year, it could infect four million people. Its in 23 countries now, including the u. S. , with 31 cases in 1 1 states and d. C. Since last year. So far all of the patients here were infected by mosquitoes abroad, but that is likely to change. The virus, first discovered in the zika forest in uganda in the 1940s, is linked to serious birth defects. Dr. Jon lapook has the latest. The zika virus. Reporter today the World Health Organization sounded an alarm about the zika outbreak. Director margaret chan. Questions abound. We need to get some answers quickly. Reporter the organization will convene an emergency meeting monday to plan its response. The zika virus, which is linked to children being born with small heads, poses several challenges. Right now diagnostic tests theres in treatment, and theres in vaccine. Dr. Anthony fauci, head of the Infectious Diseases branch of the nih, says the outbreak