Authorities said Friday the unidentified person from Salt Lake County tested positive after traveling to an area of the world where mosquitoes are known to spread Zika.
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The individual is the second known Zika-associated death in this country, as a man carrying the virus died from complications in Puerto Rico in late April.
The Bucks County Health Department on Thursday reported the first positive case of Zika in a county resident who contracted the virus during a recent trip to the Caribbean.
The registry compiles poor outcomes of pregnancies with laboratory evidence of possible Zika virus infection in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
On Friday, the Salt Lake County Health Department announced that a Utah woman has lost her life after contracting the Zika virus.
Overall, 1,133 cases of Zika had been reported in the U.S.as of July 6, according to the CDC.
The initiative follows Northern Kentucky’s first case of Zika, confirmed on June 24.
Last month, Gov. Rick Scott allocated $26.2 million of state money for Zika preparedness, prevention and response.
Twenty-five Zika virus cases have been recorded by the Ministry of Health and Medical Services so far this year.
But, health experts have warned that local transmission cases are likely to occur in the coming weeks during summer mosquito season.
As a result, the Declaration of Public Health Emergency now includes Lake – the 26th county included in the declaration, spokeswoman Noelda Lopez said.
The risk is to pregnant women.
Local transmission is where the virus is being spread to humans through a bite from the Aedes mosquito. About 80 percent of people who get infected have no symptoms, while the rest tend to only have mild symptoms that last for several days to a week. Zika also has been linked to Guillain-Barré syndrome, an uncommon sickness of the nervous system in which a person’s immune system damages the nerve cells, causing muscle weakness and sometimes paralysis. And so far, no one in the USA has contracted Zika from a mosquito in the U.S.
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According to the CDC, babies with microcephaly often have smaller head sizes and brains that might not have developed properly.
