A new report suggests that Zika virus has been sexually transmitted between two people in Texas. If confirmed, this will be the first evidence of the virus being spread through sexual contact in the US, and only the second such case worldwide.
Zika virus is usually transmitted by mosquitoes, but last year a team of medical researchers confirmed that the virus could also be passed on sexually. And now the Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) suggests the same thing has caused one individual, who hadn’t traveled outside the US, to become infected. The individual’s partner had recently returned from Venezuela.
“A person who recently traveled to an area with Zika virus transmission returned to the United States and developed Zika-like symptoms,” the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) told the media. “The person later tested positive for Zika, along with their sexual partner, who had not traveled to the area.”
Researchers still need to confirm exactly how this new case was transmitted, but the evidence suggests that the person who travelled to Venezuela brought back the infection and then spread it to their partner via semen.
“We don’t believe this was spread through mosquito bites,” Anne Schuchat, principal deputy director of the CDC, told the BBC. “We do believe it was spread through a sexual contact.”
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