The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has confirmed the first ever case of sexual transmission of the Zika virus between two gay men. The CDC say that the sexual transmission occurred in Dallas this January between two men who had unprotected sex. Statnews.com reports: While gay men who want to avoid Zika infection should take note, the lesson here applies to both men and women: Zika infection can be contracted through unprotected anal sex. Dr. John Brooks, from the CDC’s division of HIV/AIDS prevention, said the case doesn’t change the agency’s recommendations on how to avoid sexual spread of the virus, which were based on the assumption that various types of sex could transmit Zika. But it gives scientists an example to point to, he said. “It’s not just theoretical. It’s happened,” said Brooks, who was one of the authors of the report. The new findings were published in the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The authors are from the Dallas County Health Department and the CDC. “The take-home message is you have to consider any kind of intimate contact between an infected person with Zika and a non-infected person as a potential risk situation, regardless of gender,” [...]