A 12-year-old Cincinnati boy has been diagnosed with the Zika virus.
The boy recently returned from Puerto Rico, where officials believe he became infected, Interim Health Commissioner Dr. O'dell Owens told WCPO.
A school nurse alerted health officials after the boy became sick.
The case marks the second recorded Zika infection in Cincinnati. The first was a man in his 50s who also contracted the illness during a trip to the Caribbean earlier this summer, WCPO reported.
About 2,700 travel-related cases of the Zika virus have been reported in the U.S. as of the end of August, according to statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Thirty-five other cases have been contracted locally.
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