WIKIMEDIA, NIAIDA Utah resident who contracted Zika might have caught the infection from close contact with a family member who had an extremely high viral load. That’s the conclusion from an investigation by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is cautioning friends, family, and health care workers who have contact with Zika patients that bodily fluids can carry the virus.
Patient A, as he is known in the CDC’s report, did not have sex with an infected person, nor did he travel to a region where Zika is circulating. Mosquitoes collected nearby did not include the known vectors, Aedes aegypti or A. albopictus.
The route of transmission “doesn’t appear to be one of the modes we’ve seen before,” Alexander Kallen, a CDC medical officer, told The Washington Post. “It does raise the possibility that there was potential exposure to the blood and bodily fluids of the index patient, and that could have led to transmission of the second case.” The CDC could not say for sure if that’s indeed how patient A caught the virus.
The index patient, whom The Washington Post identified as patient ...
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