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Mystery Zika case in Utah may have been spread via tears or sweat
Source: The Guardian
Mystery Zika case in Utah may have been spread via tears or sweat
Experts examine whether virus can be passed on in sweat or
tears after man appears to catch Zika at father’s bedside
Sarah Boseley Health editor
Thursday 29 September 2016 12.37 BST
Experts are investigating the possibility that the Zika virus can be passed on in sweat or tears, after the infection of a 38-year-old man in the US who appears to have caught the virus at his father’s hospital bedside.
Until now it was thought that Zika was only transmitted through the bite of infected mosquitoes and, in rare instances, via semen and from pregnant women to their foetuses.
A paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, however, recounts the case of a 38-year-old man in Utah that appears to challenge the assumption. It also raises new questions about the deadliness of the virus. The man’s 73-year-old father died of organ failure, even though he had been relatively fit and healthy.
The deceased man was a US national who had emigrated from Mexico in 2003. Eight days after returning from a three-week holiday on the south coast of Mexico, he was admitted to hospital in Salt Lake City with abdominal pain and low blood pressure. During his trip, he said he had been bitten by mosquitoes.
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Experts examine whether virus can be passed on in sweat or
tears after man appears to catch Zika at father’s bedside
Sarah Boseley Health editor
Thursday 29 September 2016 12.37 BST
Experts are investigating the possibility that the Zika virus can be passed on in sweat or tears, after the infection of a 38-year-old man in the US who appears to have caught the virus at his father’s hospital bedside.
Until now it was thought that Zika was only transmitted through the bite of infected mosquitoes and, in rare instances, via semen and from pregnant women to their foetuses.
A paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, however, recounts the case of a 38-year-old man in Utah that appears to challenge the assumption. It also raises new questions about the deadliness of the virus. The man’s 73-year-old father died of organ failure, even though he had been relatively fit and healthy.
The deceased man was a US national who had emigrated from Mexico in 2003. Eight days after returning from a three-week holiday on the south coast of Mexico, he was admitted to hospital in Salt Lake City with abdominal pain and low blood pressure. During his trip, he said he had been bitten by mosquitoes.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/29/mystery-zika-virus-utah-may-spread-through-sweat-tears
