Zika Virus In Rochester!

The Rochester Democrat & Chronicle is reporting that a resident is sickened by the virus up until now was reported in South America.

The patient is unidentified and has recovered.  Thee is no likelihood that the virus was transmitted to anyone else there, health officials said. The virus poses no threat at present to anyone in the Rochester region except those who travel to a part of the world where Zika infections are endemic — Mexico, parts of the Caribbean, Central America and the northern portion of South America.

The Rochester-area patient is among seven other New Yorkers exposed to the Zika virus while traveling abroad. Three are from New York City and one each is from Nassau, Suffolk, Orange and Monroe counties, the state Department of Health said Thursday afternoon. Health officials have not revealed which country any of the seven identified patients were in when they contracted the disease.