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| The first case of local transmission of the Zika virus has been reported in Texas, the state health department announced on Monday, making it the second state, after Florida, in which the virus is known to have been transmitted from person to person by mosquitoes. | The first case of local transmission of the Zika virus has been reported in Texas, the state health department announced on Monday, making it the second state, after Florida, in which the virus is known to have been transmitted from person to person by mosquitoes. |
| The patient is a woman who is not pregnant and lives in Brownsville, on the Gulf Coast near the Mexican border. Brownsville is also where the state’s first case of chikungunya, a virus carried by the same type of mosquito that carries Zika, was confirmed earlier this year. | |
| The patient, who was not named, said she had not traveled recently to Mexico or to anyplace else where the virus was spreading. | The patient, who was not named, said she had not traveled recently to Mexico or to anyplace else where the virus was spreading. |
| “We knew it was only a matter of time before we saw a Zika case spread by mosquito in Texas,” said Dr. John Hellerstedt, the state health commissioner. | “We knew it was only a matter of time before we saw a Zika case spread by mosquito in Texas,” said Dr. John Hellerstedt, the state health commissioner. |