Aedes aegypti larvaWIKIMEDIA, ECONT
As Zika virus circulates among a growing number of nations—Jamaica, Curaçao, and Nicaragua, to name some of the latest—atypical modes of transmission are popping up.
In Brazil, a blood transfusion recipient caught the virus from an infected donor (the recipient later died from the gunshot wounds that demanded the transfusion). The American Red Cross has asked donors to wait a month after they’ve returned from a Zika-afflicted country before giving blood.
Texas health officials also reported this week that a resident contracted Zika after having sex with someone who had traveled abroad. The case represents the first locally transmitted infection in the U.S., and one of only a few to have occurred through intercourse.
US and British health authorities are now advising people who have ...
