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Local health officials on Friday confirmed the first case of Zika virus infection in Lewis and Clark County, but noted it does not pose a threat to the community.

"There is no communicability of this particular case," the county's Public Health Nurse Supervisor Karen Wandel said.

"Our mosquitoes up here don't carry Zika virus," she added, noting that the only way for the virus to spread from the infected person is sexually.

The person, a woman who was not pregnant, recently traveled to another country with an active Zika outbreak. She became ill shortly after returning home, but Wandel said she is currently recuperating and doing well.

The case is the third reported in Montana since the virus turned up in the Western Hemisphere in May 2015, according to Lewis and Clark Public Health. Two travel-related cases have been found in Missoula, the first last February and the other just this week.

The county health department released the following information in a press release:

There have more than 1,400 travel-associated cases of Zika in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). No locally acquired cases have been confirmed.