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Texas Reports First Case of Zika Spread by Local Mosquitoes
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By Julie SteenhuysenTexas health officials on Monday reported the state's first case of Zika likely spread by local mosquitoes, making Texas the second state within the continental United States to report local transmission of the virus that has been linked to birth defects.The case involved a woman living in Cameron County near the Mexico border who is not pregnant, the Texas Department of State Health Services said.Pregnancy is the biggest concern with Zika because the virus can cause severe, life-long birth defects, including microcephaly, in which a child is born with an abnormally small head, a sign its brain has stopped growing normally.
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Texas Logs First 'Likely' Case of Zika Virus Spread by Local Mosquito
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(Newser) – Texas health officials knew it was "only a matter of time," and that time has arrived, they now say: The state has logged its first case of Zika likely spread by a local mosquito, the Guardian reports.This news puts Texas alongside Florida as the only other state in which this has occurred—all of the other 257 reported Zika cases in Texas had been tied to either sexual transmission or travel.CNN and the Washington Post report the infected patient, confirmed via a lab test, is a non-pregnant 43-year-old female from the border town of Brownsville (various communities in Mexico have been battling local transmission) who hadn't recently gone to a known Zika region or otherwise been exposed.
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Texas Hit With First Local Zika Case
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A baby with microcephaly.CDC videoIt appears Texas has its first locally transmitted case of the Zika virus.Monday afternoon, state health officials announced that a woman living in Cameron County in the Rio Grande Valley tested positive for the birth-defect causing virus.
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