Fourteen more people may have caught the Zika virus in the U.S.
without traveling to affected zones, federal health officials said
Tuesday — strong evidence that the virus is sexually transmitted fairly
often.
Some of those suspected of having been infected
sexually have been pregnant women, the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention says.
"CDC and state public health departments are now
investigating 14 new reports of possible sexual transmission of Zika
virus, including several involving pregnant women," the CDC said in a
statement.
"In two of the new suspected sexual transmission
events, Zika virus infection has been confirmed in women whose only
known risk factor was sexual contact with an ill male partner who had
recently traveled to an area with local Zika virus transmission; testing
for the male partners is still pending."
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