Territory Sees 33 New Cases Of Zika As Virus Shows Signs Of Slowing

The U.S. Virgin Islands saw 33 new cases of the Zika virus this week, a marked decrease from last week's 100 surge, although the Department of Health's director of public relations, Nicole Tyson, said the latter number was a result of cases that were backlogged. “The significant increase in positive cases is primarily due to pending results dating back three weeks; the case increase is not specific to last week,” Ms. Tyson. “As last weeks surveillance report indicated, there were a large number of pending results (261 on last report) that we received results back for and have updated the status in the database accordingly. The currently pending results reflects the most recent samples sent to CDC.” This week's total is 866, with St. Thomas leading with 570 confirmed cases, followed by St. Croix with 147 confirmed cases, and St. John with 63 confirmed cases. Pregnant women, which D.O.H. is now counting separately, stayed unchanged at 86 cases. On Friday, the World Health ...