PRO/AH/EDR> Zika virus – Dominican Republic

Zika virus — Worldwide/Unknown
In this city of Puerto Plata [Puerto Plata province, Dominican Republic] the 1st case of Zika virus has been recorded, which, like dengue and chikungunya, is transmitted by the bite of the _Aedes aegypti_ mosquito. The patient is a 12 year old girl, [daughter of] a young lawyer resident in one of the southern sectors of Puerto Plata, hospitalized in a private clinic in Puerto Plata, where a medical team told her family that Zika virus is transmitted by the same mosquito as dengue and