Zika Confirmed In Grayson Co Texas

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The Grayson County Health Department confirmed Wednesday that a county resident had tested positive for the Zika virus.

The patient is an adult resident of Grayson County and has recently traveled to an area with a known Zika Virus outbreak.

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Edited March 9, 2016 by niman

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Zika virus case confirmed in Grayson County

Posted: Wed 10:58 AM, Mar 09, 2016

By: KXII-TV

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SHERMAN, Texas -- The Grayson County Health Department confirmed Wednesday that a county resident had tested positive for the Zika virus.

The patient is an adult resident of Grayson County and has recently traveled to an area with a known Zika Virus outbreak.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, the Zika virus is spread to people primarily through the bite of an infected Aedes species mosquito.

The virus can also be spread through sexual contact.

Zika virus can be spread from a pregnant woman to her fetus and has been linked to a serious birth defect of the brain called microcephaly in babies of mothers who had Zika virus while pregnant. Microcephaly is a condition in which a baby's head is significantly smaller than expected, often due to abnormal brain development.

The most common symptoms of Zika are fever, rash, joint pain, and conjunctivitis (red eyes). The illness is usually mild with symptoms lasting for several days to a week after being bitten by an infected mosquito. People usually don’t get sick enough to go to the hospital, and they very rarely die of Zika.

To date no Zika infections resulting from a mosquito bite have been reported in The United States.

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