(NaturalNews) Hysteria over the Zika virus continues to spread – with the help of government health authorities and the media – and the latest scare tactics could lead to the legal banning of sexual intercourse for those who become infected.

On August 26, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report regarding the alleged sexual transmission of the Zika virus by a man who displayed no symptoms of the disease before or after having intercourse with his female partner, who subsequently contracted the disease.

The case involved a Maryland man who had traveled to the Dominican Republic – a country where a Zika outbreak is underway – but who showed no signs of the disease when he returned and engaged in unprotected sex with his partner.

The woman had not traveled to any Zika-infested areas, and the CDC is claiming that the case is the first of its kind – at least in the United States – in which a seemingly uninfected person transmitted the disease through sexual activity.

Although doctors say that this type of transmission is extremely rare, the CDC report – which has been dutifully covered by the Associated Press – is likely to only heighten the paranoia regarding the Zika virus.

In fact, it's not too difficult to imagine a scenario in the near future where sexual intercourse involving those infected by Zika is made illegal by government authorities, similar to laws created in response to the spread of HIV/AIDS.
 

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