Updated: Ohio Local case of Zika virus reported, officials advise public not to panic

A Martins Ferry woman tested positive for the virus after she arrived home from Haiti more than a month ago. Health officials in Belmont and Ohio counties are reacting. The woman was treated at an Ohio County hospital after blood tests reveals she was infected with the Zika virus. Officials say there is no cause for concern right now, but hospitals and health departments across the region are on heightened alert for Zika. "You have an individual that traveled to a country where there is the Zika virus and then came back and had the virus. It can be concerning because you have to care for that individual," Howard Gamble, Wheeling-Ohio County health department administrator, said. Gamble says mosquitoes that transmit the virus are not found in the area right now, but in tropical climates. The virus can only be transmitted here from person to person by sexual contact from a male to his partner, though even these instances are rare. http://wtov9.com/news/local/first-case-of-zika-virus-reported-in-ohio-valley