FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2016, file photo, an Aedes aegypti mosquito is photographed through a microscope at the Fiocruz institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil. The number of pregnant women in the United States infected with Zika virus is suddenly tripling, due to a change in how the government is counting cases. In a change announced Friday, May 20, 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will count all women who tested positive, regardless of whether they had suffered symptoms. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

As part of ongoing efforts to fight the mosquito-borne Zika virus, Arkansas will receive $̶5̶.̶6̶ ̶m̶i̶l̶l̶i̶o̶n̶ $1.3 million* from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to the federal agency.

The funding, announced Thursday, is part of a $60 million award divided among states to “support efforts to protect Americans from Zika virus disease and adverse health outcomes that can result from Zika infection, including the serious birth defect microcephaly,” officials said.

Five patients in Arkansas have tested positive for the Zika virus, and all of those cases were transmitted outside of the continental U.S., the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette previously reported.

The most recent case was reported in May and involved a resident who had recently traveled to the Caribbean, according to the newspaper. Arkansas' first case was reported in January.

Thursday's funding announcement from the CDC comes as the White House has requested $1.9 billion to combat Zika, with no budget approval from Congress as of this week.

Read Friday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.

*CORRECTION: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will give Arkansas $1.3 million in its Zika fight. Because of incorrect information from the CDC, the amount was incorrect in this story.