HK confirms first case of Zika virus
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HONG Kong authorities reported the city’s first Zika virus infection yesterday, which they described as an imported case of the disease blamed for birth defects.
The patient was said to be a 38-year-old female who had travelled to a Caribbean island, before complaining of pain in the joints and red eyes.
“Initial investigations show that the patient had traveled to the island of St Barthelemy in the Caribbean Sea from August 6th to the 20th ... she remembered that she was bitten by a mosquito,” Leung Ting-hung, head of the Centre for Health Protection, said.
The woman underwent a blood and urine test at an outpatient clinic at a private hospital on August 23, Leung said, describing her as a “foreigner” who lived in the rural district of Tseung Kwan O and worked in the financial district of Central.
Test results revealed she had Zika virus yesterday.
Leung said she is being treated under quarantine in a stable condition. “We will carry out relevant preventive and control measures to prevent further spread of the disease, as this is essentially a mosquito-borne disease, so the most important thing is to control the mosquito population in Hong Kong,” Leung said.
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