First US Zika death

Utah resident dies after contracting Zika virus, Utah bloom admiral say a citizen adulterated with Zika virus has died, and while the exact could could cause is unclear, it marks the aboriginal afterlife accompanying to the virus in the continental U.S.

Authorities said Friday the anonymous getting from Salt Lake County activated absolute afterwards traveling to an breadth of the apple area mosquitoes are accepted to advance Zika.

The Salt Lake County Bloom Department says the exact could could cause of the afterlife in backward June isn't bright because the getting was aged and aswell had an basal bloom condition.

Health admiral say they aren't absolution added advice on the getting or area they catholic due to aloofness laws.

The virus causes alone a balmy illness, at worst, in a lot of people, but infection during abundance can advance to astringent bearing defects. It's advance mainly through the chaw of a close mosquito.

The Centers for Disease Control says no cases of locally transmitted Zika accept been appear in the continental United States -- so far it has alone been apparent in travelers or their animal partners.

Local bloom admiral aswell say there is currently no blackmail of the virus getting advance by mosquitoes in Utah. "The alien mosquito breed [Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus] able of transmitting Zika virus are not begin forth the Wasatch Front," Dr. Ari Faraji, administrator of the Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District, said in a statement. "In fact, so far this season, we accept not detected those two breed anywhere in Utah."

However, they cautioned humans to assure themselves from mosquitoes if traveling abroad.

"This adverse bearings is a adverse admonition of how important it is to accept able pre-travel apprenticeship and to assure yourself from mosquitoes if traveling abroad," said Dr. Dagmar Vitek, medical administrator for the Salt Lake County Bloom Department. "In accession to Zika, travelers charge to be alert of added diseases begin about the world, including mosquito-borne illnesses like Dengue fever, malaria, and chikungunya."
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