On Tuesday, health officials in Dallas, Texas, announced that a resident had contracted the Zika virus by having sex with a person who had contracted the disease while travelling in Venezuela. It wasn't the first case in the US. At least 30 people in the country have tested positive for the virus, which has now been found in more than 24 nations around the globe and linked to shrunken, damaged brains in hundreds, perhaps thousands, of newborns worldwide. However, the Dallas infection was unique because the virus had been transmitted via sex. "This is a game changer," Zachary Thompson, director of the Dallas County Health and Human...
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