(DNAINFO) Nicole Bode and Jeanmarie Evelly | July 15, 2016 — The cases include the first known case of a woman sexually transmitting Zika to a man.

Three New Yorkers have contracted the Zika virus through sex — including the first known case in the world of a woman giving the virus to a man, officials said.

The city’s Health Department recorded three known cases of sexually-transmitted Zika cases, including one man who caught it from his female partner who had just returned from abroad, according to DOH records and the Centers for Disease Control.

Officials say the man, who hadn’t left the country for the past year but had unprotected sex with a 20-year-old woman the day she returned from traveling to a country known to be a hotspot for Zika, came down with symptoms a week after sex.

“This case represents the first reported occurrence of female-to-male sexual transmission of Zika virus,” the CDC wrote in a release Friday.

Source: Three People Have Caught Zika Virus Through Sex in NYC, City Says – Civic Center – DNAinfo New York