Travel-Related Zika Case Confirmed In Middle Tennessee

MT. JULIET, TN — State health officials and city leaders in Mt. Juliet confirmed that a person in the Wilson County suburb has a travel-related case of the Zika virus.

Tennessee still has not had a case of person-to-person or mosquito-transmitted Zika. The infected person in Mt. Juliet traveled to a place where mosquito transmissions of the virus are occurring.

Health officials and Wilson County Emergency Management Agency personnel went door-to-door to homes within a 200-yard radius of the infected person's residence.

A report in the Wall Street Journal this week suggested that Nashville being an urban area with a warm, humid climate is potentially prone to a mosquito-borne case of the virus. Despite Tennessee avoiding mosquito-transmitted cases thus far, health officials are reminding people to wear plenty of bug spray and to dump out standing water.