The school said in a message to students, staff and faculty that the student had traveled overseas over the winter break and later tested positive for the virus, but has since recovered “and is feeling well”.
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Lehigh University is a private university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania Department of Health relayed the positive test to Lehigh, Vice-Provost for Student Affairs John Smeaton said in the email.
The Zika outbreak is continuing inn several regions, including Mexico, the Carribean, Central and Southern America.
Mosquitoes typically spread the virus, but it can also be transmitted through unprotected sex, blood transfusions or, in rare cases, from mother to child during the birth process.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the student was among two Zika patients that the Pennsylvania Department of Health reported Tuesday.
Eighty percent of people who contract the virus will experience no symptoms, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Tom Friedman, while the rest will have only mild symptoms. The two female residents recently traveled to countries affected by the ongoing outbreak of the disease.
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Doctors have diagnosed around three dozen Zika cases in the continental United States over the past year, all but one thought to have originated in other countries. Find lehighvalleylive.com on Facebook.
