When the hospital there could no longer care for the 23-month-old boy, he was medically transported to Texas Children's Hospital in Houston on April 14. The boy, who had underlying health problems, died Monday.
Health officials earlier insisted the boy posed no contagion threat to Houston because he had no outside contact there and was kept away from other patients in the hospital. His family has shown no symptoms.
"It's important because we don't know where he contracted it," Cascos said. "It could've been in Houston or somewhere on the way."
Houston officials did not know of the boy's earlier visit to the city, a spokesman for the mayor said Thursday.
"We have asked (the epidemiologist studying the case) to go back and double check," Frank Michel, a spokesman for Houston Mayor Bill White.
Cascos declined to identify the family, citing privacy.
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