August 15 - Zika Virus

Zika virus has been a growing concern for local health officials long before it started to spread across America, and now that it has arrived, highly populated American Cities are scrambling to develop a plan-of-action to prevent the virus from spreading. As CNN reported earlier this week, cities have recently released ways they are combating the Zika Virus including:

• Los Angeles, California: the county recently expanded its lab capabilities to ensure faster test results
• New York City: is eliminating standing water that provides breeding grounds and applying pesticides to kill larvae and adults
• New Orleans, Louisiana: The City's Mosquito, Termite and Rodent Control Board will be getting an additional $500,000 to target the Yellow Fever and Asian tiger mosquitoes
• Houston, Texas: has added an extra Saturday shift for trash pickup in neighborhoods with a large population of women of childbearing age and fewer residents that may have air conditioning (which mosquitoes tend to disdain)
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Robert Segal, Dr. Robert Segal, who is able to discuss what precautions are most effective from a health prospective, as well as what information the masses should know about Zika including signs/symptoms and testing locations.  

MD, Co-Founder of LabFinder.com

Robert Segal, MD, FACC, RPVI is the founder of Manhattan Cardiology and LabFinder.com. Dr. Segal is a Board Certified Cardiologist and a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC). His credentials include board certifications in Nuclear Cardiology by the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC), Echocardiography and Stress Echocardiography by the National Board of Echocardiography (NBE) and he is globally recognized in Vascular Disease, as a Registered Physician for Vascular Interpretation (RPVI) by the American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS). Dr. Robert Segal is an attending cardiologist with his primary affiliation at NYU Medical Center, and North-Shore Lenox Hill Hospital.