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Bangladesh reports first Zika case

| | Mar 23, 2016, at 04:20 am
Dhaka, Mar 22 (IBNS): Bangladesh confirmed that the country has recorded the first Zika case in 2014.

Zahid Malik, state minister for health was quote as saying by The Daily Star that The trace was found within a blood sample taken in 2014 from a sexagenarian in Chittagong.

Medical tests have so far recorded zero transmission of the virus from him to anyone else, he said, Parikhkhit Chowdhury, public relation officer of the health ministry, told The Daily Star.

On 1 February 2016, based on recommendations of the International Health Regulations Emergency Committee, WHO declared the increasing cases of neonatal and neurological disorders, amid the growing Zika outbreak in the Americas, a Public Health Emergency of International Concern.

 

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