Earlier this week, the New England Journal of Medicine published a case study from a multi-disciplinary team of physicians from the University of Miami Health System. The team detailed the country’s first locally transmitted case of the mosquito-borne illness in a local pregnant woman.
The skin rash that appeared on the 23-year-old Miami-Dade woman’s chest, arms, legs, palms, and soles- along with a fever that preceded it and joint pain that followed it- led the woman to seek medical help in July when she was 23 weeks pregnant. She was later diagnosed with Zika virus (which is transmitted by Aedes Aegypti mosquitos).
From the article:
“The medical team followed the woman through her pregnancy, which provided a rare glimpse into the skin manifestations of the virus. The woman eventually delivered a full-term infant, who tested negative for Zika.”