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Doctors Reveal Photos of Zika’s Effects on 1st Person Infected in US by Virus

The first person to be infected locally during Florida’s Zika virus outbreak was nearly five months pregnant, according to a case study published today in The New England Journal of Medicine.

The study reveals how doctors figured out that a 23-year-old pregnant woman was the first person in the continental U.S. to be infected with locally acquired Zika virus.