Alaska’s first Zika case is in Sitka

The Zika virus, magnified. (Photo by Cynthia Goldsmith/Centers for Disease Control)
The state department of Health and Social Services on Friday announced the first known case of the Zika virus in the state.
It belonging to a patient treated at the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium’s Mt. Edgcumbe Hospital in Sitka.
The patient, a man from the Midwest, had traveled in Central America. He then came to Alaska, where he began to experience unusual symptoms, said Katy Pugh, a register