Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
Imported Zika cases in any country is hardly news anymore, but virus carrying mosquitos, that seems to be a new development. It doesn't mean the virus could spread immediatly, one could compare this find with the Malaria mosquitos found at many airports.
| Tue Feb 2, 2016
Australia reports two cases of Zika virus, detects mosquitoes at Sydney airport
SYDNEY |
Two Australians were diagnosed with the Zika virus after returning home from travels in the Caribbean, a state health service said on Tuesday, confirming the first cases of the mosquito-borne virus in the country this year.
Officials also said that mosquitos carrying the virus had been detected at Sydney International Airport, but stressed that it was unlikely the virus would establish local transmission given the lack of large numbers of the Aedes Aegypti mosquitos.
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| Tue Feb 2, 2016
Australia reports two cases of Zika virus, detects mosquitoes at Sydney airport
SYDNEY |
Two Australians were diagnosed with the Zika virus after returning home from travels in the Caribbean, a state health service said on Tuesday, confirming the first cases of the mosquito-borne virus in the country this year.
Officials also said that mosquitos carrying the virus had been detected at Sydney International Airport, but stressed that it was unlikely the virus would establish local transmission given the lack of large numbers of the Aedes Aegypti mosquitos.
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