A case of Zika virus transmitted through sex and not by mosquitoe bite has been reported in Dallas, Texas U.S.A.
The Centre for Disease Control says the patient was infected through sexual contact .
The patient had not travelled to any of the infected areas but the patner had just returned from Venezuela.
Zika virus is carried by Aedes mosquitoe and has been linked as the cause of many babies being born with underdeveloped brains.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the disease linked with the virus as a global public health emergency and it is spreading through The Ameicas.
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