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Utah Zika Case Shows Physical Contact Can Spread The Virus

Utah Zika Case Shows Physical Contact Can Spread The Virus

The man's only contact with someone who had Zika was a hospital visit to see a 73-year-old friend with the virus ― a visit that occurred seven to 10 days before the younger man's symptoms began.Without wearing gloves, he had helped a nurse re-position his friend and had wiped the man's eyes.That was it: There was no other contact with blood or other bodily fluids.


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Florida Reports More Zika Virus Plus Dengue

Florida Reports More Zika Virus Plus Dengue

Six more cases of homegrown Zika were confirmed Wednesday in Florida, mostly involving infections that occurred in the greater Miami area, state officials say.In addition, the state's hunt for Zika also turned up a resident infected with homegrown dengue fever.This was the second case of dengue in Florida this year, and the first in Miami, a news report says.


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Fatal Zika Virus Infection with Secondary Nonsexual Transmission — NEJM

Fatal Zika Virus Infection with Secondary Nonsexual Transmission — NEJM

To the Editor:Epidemic transmission of Zika virus (ZIKV) has rapidly occurred in the Americas, with most cases limited to mild or asymptomatic disease.1,2 To date, nine deaths from ZIKV infection that were unrelated to the Guillain–Barré syndrome have been confirmed in adults.1 Here, we report a rapidly progressive, fatal ZIKV infection acquired outside the United States and secondary local transmission in the absence of known risk factors for ZIKV infection.Patient 1, a 73-year-old man who had emigrated to the United States from Mexico in 2003, was admitted to a hospital in Salt Lake City with hypotension and abdominal pain.Radiation therapy for stage IIB prostate cancer had been completed 1 month earlier, and he was receiving antiandrogen therapy but was otherwise not systemically immunocompromised.


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Utah Man May Have Gotten Zika Virus From Wiping Dad's Sweat, Tears

Utah Man May Have Gotten Zika Virus From Wiping Dad's Sweat, Tears

(Newser) – Mystery solved?An elderly Utah man who harbored exceedingly high levels of the Zika virus before he died in June, making his the first death in the continental US linked to the disease, may have passed it onto his son through his sweat and tears.That means the illness can potentially be spread in ways other than mosquito bites and rare cases of sexual transmission or a mother passing the virus to her fetus, the AP and Guardian report.

Fatal Zika Virus Infection with Secondary Nonsexual Transmission — NEJM