Daily Journal Three Northeast Mississippi residents are among the newest cases of mosquito-borne viruses reported Monday by the Mississippi State Department of Health. A Lee County resident was counted as one of four new cases of West Nile Virus, bringing the total of lab confirmed cases for 2016 to 19 in Mississippi. New travel-associated cases of the Zika virus were reported in a Lafayette County resident who recently traveled to Nicaragua and a Prentiss County resident associated with travel to the Caribbean Island of Grenada. Zika causes severe birth defects in developing fetus if the mother is infected while she is pregnant.

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