The first confirmed Irish cases of the Zika virus are being investigated by the HSE.

It says the two patients are both adults, with a history of travel to Zika affected countries and are fully recovered.

Fianna Fáil's health spokesman Billy Kelleher says Health Minister Leo Varadkar must set up an information campaign:

Doctors in Texas have confirmed the first case of the Zika virus being sexually-transmitted in the United States.

The infection's normally passed on by mosquitoes.

Dr Tom Frieden's from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention: