Utah resident gets Zika through unknown method

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A Utah resident who died after getting Zika may have spread the virus to someone else, raising questions over how it was transmitted.

Health officials in Salt Lake City said Monday that they are exploring how the person, whom they described as a close family contact, got Zika. The person who got Zika, who has not been identified, didn’t recently travel to a country where the virus is spreading or get the virus through sexual transmission.

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