DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF NEWS) – Four more people in Dallas county may have been infected with the “Zika” virus.
Specimens from the patients have been sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for testing.
According to the Dallas Morning News, all four had recently traveled out of the country.
Earlier, health officials confirmed that the mosquito-borne virus had come to Dallas.
Two people tested positive, one of them is thought to have contracted it through sexual contact with someone who recently returned from Venezuela.
Texas governor Gregg Abbott has assembled a task force to determine how state officials should respond to the illness.
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