19 October 2017 – The Sunshine State News reported on October 13 that Florida health officials had identified the first local transmission of the Zika virus (ZIKV) from a mosquito in the US. If true, this would be the first case of its kind in the US this year.

However, it is unclear how the possibility of sexual transmission was ruled out. Click on the date (above) read the article and judge for yourself. If you have additional news let us know.

Note: the mosquito pictured in the news piece is Aedes albopictus, the Asian tiger mosquito.