Almost 300 pregnant ladies in the US have tried positive for Zika infection,

as indicated by the most recent figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

In the US, 157 pregnant ladies have tried positive for the illness and 122 have tried positive in US domains.

Up to this point, the office had not reported the quantity of ladies contaminated by the sicknesses in the US and its regions.

The infection is spread through mosquitoes and sexual contact.

It can bring about microcephaly, a birth deformity, set apart by a little head estimate and can prompt formative issues in newborn children.

Indications of Zika infection incorporate mellow fever, conjunctivitis, cerebral pain, joint agony and rashes.Death from the ailment is uncommon and there is no immunization or medication treatment accessible.

In Los Angeles, authorities are taking counteractive action measures against Zika after wellbeing authorities cautioned that episodes could be normal in Southern California.

The episode started almost a year back in Brazil.

The World Health Organization has said Zika infection could spread to Europe this mid year.

"All that we think about this infection is by all accounts scarier than we at first thought," Dr Anne Schuchat of the CDC said in April.

Prior this year, US President Barack Obama approached the US Congress for $1.9bn (£1.25bn) in crisis financing to battle the infection.

Meanwhile it has been utilizing cash totalling $589m left over from the Ebola infection store.