The infected resident recently had traveled to Puerto Rico, according to the Mississippi State Department of Health.
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Bay County is yet another county in Florida with confirmed cases of the Zika virus.
Last week health officials announced five cases of Zika were linked to mosquitoes in Miami Beach.
Scott said the state DOH does not believe the case in Pinellas County was not an active transmission. Active transmissions are only occurring in Wynwood and Miami Beach, which was officially identified on Friday.
“We will continue to monitor her progress but her symptoms, as with most people who contract Zika Virus, are mild and she did not require hospitalization”, said VCPH Public Health Officer Robert Levin M.D.in a press release.
“So far in MS, all of our Zika cases have been travel-related”. Another 494 cases were travel related.
The case brings the total reported in Mississippi this year to 17, but is the first one reported in South Mississippi.
There were eight travel-related Zika cases reported in Lee County as of Tuesday and there were another four in Collier County. Pregnant women are advised to not travel to areas where the virus is prevalent. It’s spread by mosquitoes and sexual contact.
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The WHO on Wednesday last week said that 67 countries and territories had reported evidence of vector-borne Zika virus transmission since a year ago.
