Zika virus was transmitted by sexual contact in Texas, health officials report

A person in Texas, USA, has become infected with the Zika virus after sexual contact with someone who had acquired the infection while travelling abroad, health officials have reported. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed this as the first known case of Zika virus to be locally acquired in the continental United States during the current outbreak. Almost all cases of Zika virus infection are transmitted by mosquito bites, although cases of sexual transmission have been reported previously.1 2 Dallas County health department officials said that the traveler …