Puerto Rico Reports Elderly Victim Infected With Zika Dies

Associated Press - by Danica Coto - August 5, 2016

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- Health officials announced Friday that an elderly person infected with Zika has died in Puerto Rico as the U.S. territory battles what federal authorities call a silent epidemic.

The victim was a 75-year-old man who was hospitalized and died from health ailments unrelated to Zika, according to Health Secretary Ana Rius. . . .

. . . The first Zika-related death was reported in late April and involved a 70-year-old man from the San Juan metro area. He suffered internal bleeding after developing a condition in which antibodies that formed in response to a Zika infection began attacking blood platelet cells. At the time, Rius said there were three other cases of the condition known as severe thrombocytopenia and that those patients recovered.

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CLICK HERE - Zika virus: first American dies of complications linked to disease

CLICK HERE - CDC - MMWR - Update: Ongoing Zika Virus Transmission — Puerto Rico, November 1, 2015–April 14, 2016

CLICK HERE - Thrombocytopenia and subcutaneous bleedings in a patient with Zika virus infection

CLICK HERE - Zika Virus Infection Associated with Severe Thrombocytopenia