The New York Department of Health on Oct. 14 confirmed the state’s first locally acquired case of the chikungunya virus, involving a resident in Long Island with no history of travel to other countries.
The person, identified as a Nassau County resident on Long Island, developed symptoms of the mosquito-borne virus in August after traveling outside the region, according to the county’s health department.
It remains unclear how the person contracted the virus, but the state health department said it was most likely transmitted through the bite of an infected mosquito.
The department said the virus has not been detected in local mosquito pools and that there is no evidence of an outbreak in the state following the reported case….