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Two people in Williamson County test positive for Zika virus
Two people who live in Williamson County tested positive for Zika this month, making it the first Zika cases in Texas this year. The Texas Department of State Health Services says the two cases were travel-related and the two individuals got sick while abroad. The peak of the Zika scare was in 2016, when it became a nationally notifiable condition. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 5,168 Zika virus cases were reported in 2016. That year, Texas had 312 cases of the Zika virus and six of those cases happened from local mosquitos.
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