COMMUNITY NURSING
DQ9 Community Nursing APA Format
Chapter 15: Emerging Infectious Diseases
A neighbor, who is 3 months pregnant, asks to talk to you because she has felt tired for the last 2 days, has a headache, a rash, and does not feel like eating. You take her vital signs and find that she has a low-grade fever. She has recently traveled to an area where there is risk for Zika virus disease.
To what could your neighbor have been exposed, and how could the exposure have occurred?
What advice would you give your neighbor?
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What my neighbor has been exposed to and how it might have occurred
The woman could have been exposed to the Zika virus. Infected mosquitoes transmit the Zika virus. When an infected mosquito bites a person, they infected them with the virus. The woman could have been bitten by an infected mosquito when she traveled to the area infested by the infected mosquitos…
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