Experts are investigating the possibility that the Zika virus can be passed on in sweat or tears, after the infection of a 38-year-old man in the US who appears to have caught the virus at his father’s hospital bedside. A paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, however, recounts the case of a 38-year-old man in Utah that appears to challenge the assumption. Doctors suspected the dengue virus, but tests revealed high levels of the Zika virus in his blood. The Zika virus was identified in his urine, but not his blood. Is it right to launch mass chemical warfare on Zika mosquitoes?

Source: The Guardian September 29, 2016 11:37 UTC