*What the heck gives with that?
From: editors@globalpost.com
http://www.globalpost.com/article/6728095/2016/02/02/texas-reports-case-sexually-transmitted-zika-virus
NEED TO KNOW:
"Americans had better learn how to pronounce Zika. The virus is officially no longer just a problem for other countries to deal with — it’s in the United States.
"Health officials have confirmed the first case of infection on US soil since the World Health Organization declared Zika a global health emergency. Other people have brought the virus to the US before, having contracted it abroad. Until now, though, none of them passed it to anyone else.
"That changed with this case in Texas (what is it with that state and spreading scary diseases?). The unnamed patient is thought to have contracted Zika from a person they had sex with, who had earlier traveled to a country with an outbreak of the virus and picked it up the usual way — via a mosquito bite. It’s only the second time ever that Zika is reported to have been transmitted sexually. Scientists believe the virus can be passed on in men’s semen.
"That means that you don’t have to be in a country with Zika-carrying mosquitos — including Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and more than 20 other countries in the Americas and Caribbean — to be at risk from infection. With that in mind, and given the effects that the virus is suspected of having on unborn babies, Zika seems like a great reason to practice safe sex."
