Health | Zika virus 33 US Service Members Have Gotten Zika Plus 6 of their family members By Evann Gastaldo Posted Aug 3, 2016 1:29 PM CDT Copied Samples of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, responsible for transmitting dengue and Zika, sit in a petri dish at the Fiocruz Institute in Recife, Pernambuco state, Brazil. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File) At least 33 US service members have gotten Zika while serving overseas, the Pentagon says. Six family members of service members have also gotten the virus while outside the continental US, Military.com reports. One of the active-duty service members to contract the virus is pregnant, though details about her health and that of her unborn child were unavailable. The Pentagon didn't specify the countries involved or say how many of the infected troops were still sick or back in the US, notes CNN. (Zika is being transmitted by local mosquitoes in Florida.) Read These Next One critical island in Iran has remained unscathed in airstrikes. For the first time in decades, team pulls out of World Cup. Girl who vanished in 2020 in California is found in North Carolina. Iran's new supreme leader is said to already have war wounds. Report an error