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Dallas County Health and Human Services in Texas said it has received confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that a case of the mosquito-borne Zika virus was transmitted through sexual contact this year.

 

The patient, the county said, “was infected with the virus after having sexual contact with an ill individual who returned from a country where Zika virus is present.” The county said the patient had recently traveled to to Venezuela, a country where Zika is actively transmitted, but the sexual partner had not traveled.

 

In a statement to CNN, the CDC said it confirmed the test results showing Zika present in the blood of a “nontraveler in the continental United States.”

Based on that, the CDC has updated its advice: “The best way to avoid Zika virus infection is to prevent mosquito bites AND to avoid exposure to semen from someone who has been exposed to Zika virus or has been ill from Zika virus infection.”

 

Earlier Tuesday, CDC Director Tom Friedan told CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta: “There have been isolated cases of spread through blood transfusion or sexual contact and that’s not very surprising. The virus is in the blood for about a week. How long it would remain in the semen is something that needs to be studied and we’re working on that now.”

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