Science Magazine reports on the zika virus, a mosquito-borne pathogen that causes joint pain and extreme fatigue, and how it appears to have been sexually transmitted. (Though this case involves mosquitoes, many in the Lyme community are concerned that tick-borne infections may be sexually transmitted as well.)

From Science magazine:

Sex After a Field Trip Yields Scientific First

by Martin Enserink on 6 April 2011, 11:15 AM |

A U.S. vector biologist appears to have accidentally written virological history simply by having sex with his wife after returning from a field trip to Senegal. A study just released in Emerging Infectious Diseases suggests that the researcher, Brian Foy of Colorado State University in Fort Collins, passed to his wife the Zika virus, an obscure pathogen that causes joint pains and extreme fatigue. If so, it would be the first documented case of sexual transmission of an insect-borne disease.

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