Report

Preliminary Findings from an Investigation of Zika Virus Infection in a Patient with No Known Risk Factors - Utah, 2016

Peterson, Dallin, Crain, Jacqueline, Brent, Carolyn, Rubin, Mike, Hill, Mary, Faraji, Ary, Cortese, Margaret, Novosad, Shannon, Savage, Harry, Nakashima, Allyn, Garcia, Wendy, Atkinson, Annette, Dimond, Melissa, Dunn, Angela, Risk, Ilene, Christensen, Kimberly, Krow-Lucal, Elisabeth Raquel, Staples, J Erin

2016

Overview

On Jul 12, 2016, the Utah Department of Health was notified by a clinician caring for an adult (patient A) who was evaluated for fever, rash, and conjunctivitis that began on July 1. Patient A had not traveled to an area with ongoing Zika virus transmission; had not had sexual contact with a person who recently traveled; and had not received a blood transfusion, organ transplant, or mosquito bites. Patient A provided care over several days to an elderly male family contact who contracted Zika virus abroad. The investigation consisted of four components: an epidemiologic evaluation of family contacts of the index patient, a serosurvey of health care workers who provided direct care to the index patient before his death, a community serosurvey around the locations where the index patient had resided, and active vector surveillance near the residences of the index patient and patient A.

• Publisher: U.S. Center for Disease Control
• Subject: Blood transfusions / Body fluids / Conjunctivitis / Epidemics / Epidemiology / Families & family life / Health care / Health services / Housing / Immunoglobulins / Indexes / Infections / Insect bites / Medical personnel / Mosquitoes / Older people / Patients / Risk factors / Sexual behavior / Surveillance / Urine / Vector-borne diseases / Viruses / Visitation / Workers / Zika virus