BD confirms first case of Zika virus

Bangladesh accepted on Tuesday its aboriginal case of the Zika virus in an old sample of claret from a 67-year old man who had not been overseas, bloom admiral admiral said.


The man lives in southeastern anchorage city-limits of Chittagong and was well, inferior bloom abbot Zahid Maleque told a account conference. None of his ancestors had activated positive, he said.

Mahmudur Rahman, administrator of the ministry’s Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, said the man had never travelled alfresco Bangladesh.

"The virus was begin in the man as we activated old claret samples of about 1,000 bodies afflicted with agitation in 2014 and 2015," Rahman told Reuters.

The Zika beginning is affecting ample locations of Latin America and the Caribbean, with Brazil the hardest hit.

It is acceptable to advance to all countries in the Americas except for Canada and Chile, the World Bloom Organisation (WHO) has said.

The WHO estimates Zika could eventually affect as abounding as 4 actor bodies in the region.

Some cases accept been begin in Asia, admiral in the arena accept said.

Zika is agitated by mosquitoes that address the virus to bodies and it has been affiliated to a fasten in microcephaly, a attenuate bearing defect, in Brazil.

The WHO declared the Zika beginning an all-embracing bloom emergency on Feb 1, citation a "strongly suspected" accord amid Zika infection in abundance and microcephaly, which can aftereffect in adorning problems.