A woman infected with Zika carried the virus in her vagina for weeks, researchers reported Tuesday.
It's yet more evidence that the virus can hang
out in the human body for weeks or months after symptoms have cleared
up. The findings, rushed online by the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, also add to evidence the virus might be commonly transmitted sexually.
That, in turn, helps explain Zika's rapid
spread. Mosquitoes that carry the virus don't go more than a few hundred
yards in their lives. People travel much further.
Dr. Kristy Murray, assistant dean of the National School of Tropical
Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and colleagues tested a
woman infected with Zika while visiting Honduras.
"A previously healthy, nonpregnant, 26 year-old non-Hispanic white woman
returned to the United States from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, during
mid-May 2016," they wrote.
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