“Zika virus can look a lot like the other viruses that are also prevalent in those areas,” Megan Stanley, RN says, “so first we’d be ruling out any other type of virus to see if we could distinguish if it’s something else we already know about before we go on to do Zika testing.”
Doctors are also asking if patients’ partners have gone to the affected areas, after the CDC announced the virus could be present in semen.
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