CDC: ‘Extremely unlikely’ Zika airborne

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Federal health officials say they are confident that Zika has not become airborne, although they don’t know how a Utah resident got the virus.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is assisting Utah officials in investigating how a person contracted the Zika virus after caring for an elderly family member who picked up the virus in another country and died due to complications from the virus. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the patient was the man’s son.

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