Thursday, February 4, 2016

Dallas County reports 1st U.S. case of Zika virus



The first U.S. case of the Zika virus has been narrowed in Dallas County, native health officers aforesaid on Tuesday, adding there are not any reports of the virus being domestically transmitted by mosquitoes within the Texas county.

Dallas County Health and Human Services aforesaid the case in Dallas was nonheritable through sexual transmission, adding that it received confirmation of the infection from the U.S. Centers for sickness management and interference.

The person infected failed to travel and bought the virus from somebody WHO had been to South American nation, the county health department aforesaid on its twitter feed. It failed to give more info on the Texas infection as a result of privacy considerations.

The federal agency aforesaid it failed to investigate however the virus was transmitted.

There are six confirmed travel-related cases of Zika virus sickness, all among residents of Harris County, wherever
Houston is found, the Texas Department of State Health Services aforesaid.

In medical literature, there has been only 1 case of Zika transmitted sexually and one case within which the virus was detected in humor.

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