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Man may have caught Zika from his father's tears, researchers say

Man may have caught Zika from his father's tears, researchers say

× Man may have caught Zika from his father's tears, researchers sayZika cases have all been from mosquito bites and sexual contact– until now.Doctors believe a Utah man contracted the virus from exposure to his father's infected tears, according to research published in the New England Journal of Medicine.Researchers say the man got sick five days after visiting his father in the hospital, who was infected with the Zika virus during a trip to Mexico.


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Man may have caught Zika from tears

Man may have caught Zika from tears

Experts are investigating the possibility that the Zika virus can be passed on in sweat or tears, after the infection of a 38-year-old man in the United States who appears to have caught the virus at his father's hospital bedside.Up to now, Zika virus mainly has been transmitted through mosquito bites, although in rarer instances it has been passed on through sexual contact.The man's 73-year-old father died though he was relatively fit and healthy.


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Mystery Zika case in Utah may have been spread via tears or sweat

Mystery Zika case in Utah may have been spread via tears or sweat

Experts are investigating the possibility that the Zika virus can be passed on in sweat or tears, after the infection of a 38-year-old man in the US who appears to have caught the virus at his father's hospital bedside.Miami Beach protests against use of Naled to fight Zika-carrying mosquitos Read moreUntil now it was thought that Zika was only transmitted through the bite of infected mosquitoes and, in rare instances, via semen and from pregnant women to their foetuses.A paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, however, recounts the case of a 38-year-old man in Utah that appears to challenge the assumption.


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Utah man may have contracted Zika from dying father's tears

Utah man may have contracted Zika from dying father's tears

A Utah man who mysteriously contracted Zika from his infected father may have got it by touching his dad's tears or sweat with his bare hands, according to new research that found the unusual transmission method was likely caused by his dying father having 100,000 times the normal level of the virus.The research done by University of Utah doctors and published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, doesn't give definite answers to why the father's levels were so high or why the son contracted the virus in a way not documented anywhere else.But it does offer new details about the events the led to a case that has puzzled researchers.The father, 73, had been diagnosed with prostate cancer eight months before his June death, the report says.He was receiving radiation therapy and anti-androgen therapy, which may have made it easier for the virus to replicate, said Dr. Sankar Swaminathan, chief of the infectious diseases division at University of Utah Health Care.

Man may have caught Zika from his father's tears, researchers say