…sexual contact with an infected person. Those infected with Zika virus typically experience symptoms including mild fever, skin rash, muscle and joint pain, and headache. These symptoms can last up to a week.
There also has been one infant born in the U.S. with the birth defect from the Zika virus. Officials believe the mother contracted the virus while pregnant living in Brazil last year.
The news of Beenie Man’s diagnoses came one day after Florida officials confirmed three men and one woman were infected with the Zika Virus.
“Florida has become the first state in our nation to have local transmission of the Zika virus,” Governor Rick Scott announced Friday. We are testing the mosquitoes there and we are spraying to make sure it’s contained.”
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